New Jersey State Immigration

Population

New Jersey's population increased from 6,066,782 in 1960 to 8,801,624 in 2010. That was an increase of 45.1 percent.

The foreign-born (FB) population increased from 615,479 in 1960 to 1,844,581 in 2010. That was an increase of 199.7 percent. The foreign-born share changed from 10.1 percent to 21.0 percent.

The share of the overall population that was native-born (NB) increased by 27.4 percent.

	New Jersey: 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. Domestic migration (NDM) was consistently negative, and B-D and NIM both accounted for about half of the overall population increase.

The second chart shows the same data but with an adjustment to reflect births to immigrants shifted to NIM. In it, NIM accounted for most of the added population in all periods and the sole factor in the most recent period.

	New Jersey: Sources of Population Change 1990-2014 		New Jersey: Sources of Population Change (Adjusted) 1990-2014

		 B-D	 NDM	NIM						B-D	NDM	NIM	
	90-'99  52.1%	 neg.  47.9%					90-'99	17.0%   neg.  83.0%
	00-'09	48.4%	 neg.  51.6%					00-'09	 4.2%   neg.  95.8%
	10-'14	40.7%	 neg.  59.3%					10-'14	 neg.   neg.   all

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