The annual increase in 2024 was two million people of Latino origin
EFE (via 14ymedio), Miami, October 8, 2025 — For the first time in history, one in five U.S. residents is of Latino origin, for a total of 68 million people, according to a report Tuesday from the Latino GDP project of the University of California Los Angeles (UCLA) and California Lutheran University.
The study found an annual increase of two million people of Latino origin in 2024 by analyzing updated data from the Census Bureau, which reports a total of 340 million inhabitants in the United States.
This means that the Latino community grew by 2.9% from 2023 to 2024, a rate equivalent to 5.8 times the increase in the population of other origins, the report detailed.
To explain the increase, the study cited “natural population change,” which results from subtracting deaths from births, implying a cumulative growth of 3.2 million Latinos from 2020 to 2024, compared to a decrease of 1.3 million people from other demographics over the same period.
The report also noted a record year-over-year increase of 5.5% in the Latino workforce in 2024 to 35.1 million workers.
“This is an extraordinary difference of 4.5 million people. Latinos withstood the extraordinary challenges of the (COVID-19) pandemic and were responsible for maintaining the positive natural population shift in the United States overall,” the report noted.
The report also noted a record year-over-year increase of 5.5% of the Latino workforce to 35.1 million workers in 2024, an increase of 46.5% since 2010, a growth rate 7.2 times faster than the rest of the population.
The labor force participation rate among Latinos also reached a record high of 69%.
“Time and again, we find that hard work, self-reliance, optimism, and perseverance are characteristics that underlie the strength and resilience of Latinos in the United States,” said Matthew Fienup, executive director of the Center for Economic Research and Forecasting at Cal Lutheran.
These findings follow another study in April by Latino GDP, which revealed that the gross domestic product (GDP) of Latinos in the United States reached $4.1 trillion, the fifth highest in the world, ahead of India.
But this study also comes after it was revealed that the United States lost 1.4 million migrants in the first six months of the Donald Trump administration, marking the first decline in the immigrant population since the 1960s, according to a Pew Research Center report in August.
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