🇺🇸 US Immigration & Labor Market

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

Foreign-Born Labor Force

32.3M

+0.6% YoY

2026-09-01

Foreign-Born Share of Labor Force

18.9%

Peak: 19.8% (2025-03)

Foreign-Born Unemployment

3.2%

Native-born: 4.2%

Total Labor Force

170.3M

Native: 138.0M

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: 2026-10-19 | Records: 237 months since 1977

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