The share of the population born outside the United States
The largest foreign-born population in the world is in the United States, which was home to 44 million foreign-born residents in 2017, or 14% of the population. The population born outside the United States varied widely across the states, from highs of 26.9% in California to lows of 1.6% in West Virginia.
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