U.S. HISPANIC COUNTRY-OF-ORIGIN COUNTS FOR NATION

The 2010 Decennial Census counted 50.5 million Hispanics. Among them, 31.8 million, or 63%, are of Mexican origin. They are followed by Puerto-Rican-origin Hispanics, who number 4.6 million, or 9.2%, of all U.S. Hispanics. Next are the Cubans at 1.8 million or 3.5%, Salvadorans at 1.6 million or 3.3%, Dominicans at 1.4 million or 2.8%, Guatemalans at one million or 2.1% and Colombians at 909,000 or 1.8%.

(Pew Hispanic Center, Press Release, May 27, 2011).