Utah State Immigration

Population

Utah's population increased from 890,627 in 1960 to 2,776,469 in 2010. That was an increase of 211.7 percent.

The foreign-born (FB) population increased from 32,133 in 1960 to 222,638 in 2010. That was an increase of 592.9 percent. The foreign-born share increased from 3.6 percent in 1960 to 8.1 percent in 2010.

The share of the overall population that was native-born (NB) increased by 196.0 percent.

	Utah: 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 adding population in all periods was B-D.

The second chart shows the same data but with an adjustment to reflect births to immigrants shifted to NIM. In it, B-D still accounted for a majority of added population, while NIM replaced NDM as the second largest contributor to population increase.

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

		 B-D	 NDM	NIM						B-D	NDM	NIM	
	90-'99   72.4%	19.5%   8.1%					90-'99	63.5%  19.5%  17.0%
	00-'09	 75.0%	11.1%  13.9%					00-'09	62.7%  11.1%  26.3%
	10-'14	 85.7%	 2.1%  12.2%					10-'14	67.4%   2.1%  30.5%

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