West Virginia State Immigration

Population

West Virginia's population decreased from 1,860,421 in 1960 to 1,853,973 in 2010. That was a decrease of 0.3 percent.

The foreign-born (FB) population decreased from 23,836 in 1960 to 22,511 in 2010. That was a decrease of 5.7 percent. The foreign-born share decreased from 1.3 percent in 1960 to 1.2 percent.

The share of the overall population that was native-born (NB) decreased by 0.3 percent.

	West Virginia: 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 was different in each period, and the amounts of increase were very small.

The second chart shows the same data but with an adjustment to reflect births to immigrants shifted to NIM. In it, the same variation in principal factor contributing to population increase continued.

	West Virginia: Sources of Population Change 1990-2014 		West Virginia: Sources of Population Change (Adjusted) 1990-2014

		 B-D	 NDM	NIM						B-D	NDM	NIM	
	90-'99  71.1%	10.9% 18.1%					90-'99	49.0%  10.9%  40.1%
	00-'09	 neg.	74.0% 26.0%					00-'09	 neg.  58.0%  42.0%
	10-'14	 neg.	 neg.  all					10-'14	 neg.   neg.   all

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