Tennessee State Immigration

Population

Tennessee's population increased from 3,567,089 in 1960 to 6,356,897 in 2010. That was an increase of 78.2 percent.

The foreign-born (FB) population increased from 15,843 in 1960 to 288,993 in 2010. That was an increase of 1724.1 percent. The foreign-born share increased from 0.4 percent in 1960 to 4.6 percent in 2010.

The share of the overall population that was native-born (NB) increased by 70.6 percent.

	Tennessee: Population  1960-2010

Sources of Population Change

The primary sources of population change are:

Natural Change [Births minus Deaths or B-D];
Net Domestic Migration [NDM - movement between states]; and
Net International Migration [NIM - movement into and out of the country].
There is also a residual "other" amount that isn't placed in one of those three categories.

The first chart below shows the three population change factors for three periods adjusted for annual average amounts. The largest factor in the earliest two periods was NDM and in the latest period was B-D.

The second chart shows the same data but with an adjustment to reflect births to immigrants shifted to NIM. In it, NDM was the largest factor in population increase in all periods, and NIM became the second largest factor in the most recent period.

	Tennessee: Sources of Population Change 1990-2014 		Tennessee: Sources of Population Change (Adjusted) 1990-2014

		 B-D	 NDM	NIM						B-D	NDM	NIM	
	90-'99   36.7%	58.4%   5.0%					90-'99	32.9%  58.4%   8.7%
	00-'09	 39.1%	45.2%  15.6%					00-'09	31.6%  45.2%  23.2%
	10-'14	 39.8%	41.7%  18.5%					10-'14	27.3%  41.7%  31.0%

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