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Foreign-Born Share of the U.S. Labor Force

Foreign-born workers as a share of the U.S. labor force, %

19.0% in Sep 2026+1.8 pp since Sep 2016
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Current·Data to Sep 2026

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Not seasonally adjusted. Computed from BLS household survey counts.

How much of the U.S. workforce was born abroad. It reflects both immigration flows and how quickly new arrivals enter work.

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Sources

Foreign-Born Share of the U.S. Labor Force. Source: Bureau of Labor Statistics, series LNU01073395 and LNU01073413 ("Civilian Labor Force Level - Foreign Born / Native Born"). Palanor pulls it from the FRED API (Federal Reserve Bank of St. Louis) nightly. Bureau of Labor Statistics data are in the public domain. Palanor computes the share.

Charts are drawn from Palanor's signal library and recomputed from source data on every view. Transformations (changes, indexing, year-on-year rates) are Palanor's.

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