New York State Immigration

Population

New York's population increased from 16,782,304 in 1960 to 19,392,283 in 2010. That was an increase of 15.6 percent.

The foreign-born (FB) population increased from 2,989,205 in 1960 to 4,297,612 in 2010. That was an increase of 43.8 percent. The foreign-born share changed from 17.8 percent to 22.2 percent.

The share of the overall population that was native-born (NB) increased by 9.3 percent.

	New York: 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 each 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 became the dominant source of added population in all periods and the sole source in the latest period.

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

		 B-D	 NDM	 NIM						B-D	NDM	NIM	
	90-'99	47.9%	 neg.  52.1%					90-'99	12.0%   neg.  88.0%
	00-'09	52.1%	 neg.  47.9%					00-'09	 3.5%   neg.  96.5%
	10-'14	44.3%	 neg.  55.7%					10-'14	 neg.   neg.   all%

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