🇺🇸 US Immigration & Labor Market

Foreign-born vs native-born employment, labor force participation, and unemployment rates from FRED. Updated monthly.

Foreign-Born Labor Force

31.5M

-1.7% YoY

2026-07-01

Foreign-Born Share of Labor Force

18.5%

Peak: 19.8% (2025-03)

Foreign-Born Unemployment

3.3%

Native-born: 4.6%

Total Labor Force

170.2M

Native: 138.7M

Labor Force by Nativity

Foreign-born vs native-born civilian labor force (thousands). Monthly, not seasonally adjusted.

Sources: Federal Reserve Economic Data (FRED) — LNU01073395/LNU01073413 (labor force by nativity), LNU02073395/LNU02073413 (employment by nativity), LNU04073395/LNU04073413 (unemployment rate by nativity). All series monthly, not seasonally adjusted.

Updated: 2026-08-26 | Records: 235 months since 1977

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