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Show Table 2. Foreign Born Population of Utah by Region: 1850 - 2000. Region 1850 1860 1870 1880 1890 1900 1910 1920 1930 1940 1950 1960 1970 1980 1990 2000 EUROPE 1,630 12,046 29,312 41,911 50,609 50,848 60,696 52,974 41,720 29,190 24,939 25,413 19,212 20,954 17,820 25,640 Northern 1,555 11,797 28,653 40,414 47,179 46,198 44,874 37,274 27,332 17,753 13,758 11,071 8,133 7,824 6,623 7,316 Western 72 180 547 1,177 2,689 3,343 7,528 6,990 7,100 5,859 6,418 10,290 8.055 9,976 7,843 8,777 Southern 2 65 79 220 388 1,081 7,188 6,508 5,296 4,207 3,574 3,108 2,071 1,887 1,572 1,836 Eastern 12 25 78 333 218 1,089 2,202 1,856 1,296 1,077 931 947 1,186 1,739 7,675 N.E.C. - 2 8 22 20 8 17 - 136 75 112 13 6 81 43 36 ASIA Eastern Asia 1 1 1 462 446 606 502 842 813 1,012 963 2,756 2,374 2,831 2,622 2,438 2,031 1,163 937 530 2,013 1,397 2,536 1,477 11,124 3,508 15,898 5,127 28,373 9,951 South Cen- - - - 17 15 23 - - - - - 106 184 1,578 1,932 4,179 South East- - - - - - - 158 - - 197 238 2,866 6,783 11,822 Western N.E.C. 1 - 16 86 1 2 12 18 8 361 21 209 190 59 170 56 86 444 100 213 351 286 322 2,850 550 1,506 2,307 114 AFRICA - 17 128 106 77 97 - - - - - 96 195 865 704 2,414 OCEANIA - 10 74 133 118 161 199 221 215 158 - 328 281 - 3,448 6,612 LATIN AMERICA 9 12 17 132 56 86 161 1,121 2,435 1,111 1,396 1,547 2,174 6,757 13,825 87,883 Caribbean 2 - 3 99 9 6 4 8 8 5 - 55 129 211 413 1,015 Central 7 12 11 21 32 73 146 1,085 2,388 1,073 1,396 1,250 1,470 4,897 10,236 74,123 Mexico Other Central America 7 12 8 3 17 4 19 13 41 32 145 1 1,083 2 2,386 2 1,069 4 1,396 1,153 97 1,308 162 4,221 676 8,922 1,314 66,478 7,645 South America - - 3 12 15 7 11 28 39 33 - 242 575 1,649 3,176 12,745 NORTH AMERICA 338 647 687 1,036 1,222 1,331 1,694 1,466 1,196 1,436 2,145 2,256 2,599 5,132 5,469 7,735 Born at Sea Others N.E.C. / or Reported 66 21 21 1 23 47 53 87 76 166 41 220 40 414 31 143 2 175 834 480 2,576 5,619 1,436 7 TOTAL 2,044 12,754 30,702 43,994 53,064 53,777 65,767 59,067 48,178 33,235 29,844 32,133 29,573 50,451 58,600 158,664 N.E.C. is Not Elsewhere Classified Sources: Jensen (1994) and Bureau of the Census Figure 1. Foreign Born Contribution to Utah Population Increase: 1990-2000. The Utah population increased by 510,319 in the 1990s. Of this 100,064 are international immigrants that arrived since 1990. Born in US 80% Bureau of the Census data serious effort to count them until at least 1920. With recent international migrations from Latin America and Asia, these populations have increased more rapidly than the white non-Hispanic population. (Figure 3) These immigrants are young and, in the case of Hispanics, have relatively high fertility rates. These have combined to result in what is, and should continue to be, a very rapidly growing minority population. IMMIGRATION TO UTAH While immigration to Utah has certainly been affected by national trends, internal migration patterns (within the U.S.) and factors unique to the state have also had major influences. (Figures 4 through 7 and Tables 2 and 3) As is true for the nation, the Utah foreign-born population has increased significantly (both absolutely and relatively), particularly since 1990. The European share of the Utah foreign-bom has diminished; the Asian and Latin American shares have exploded; and the Eastern European foreign-born share has risen somewhat. While these developments are similar to those at the national scale, Utah has differences in both the relative size and composition of its foreign-born population that derive from its historical experience. The first large settlement of Utah by Europeans was the Mormon migration beginning in 1847. From 1852 to 1887 the Perpetual Emigrating Fund Company, which was organized to bring Latter-day Saints (especially from the British Isles and Scandinavia) to the Intermountain West, assisted 26,000 of the 73,000 Latter-day Saints migrating to the U.S. from Europe (Jensen, 1994). Virtually all of the Utah foreign-born population in 1880 was Northern and Western European. (Figure 8) The completion of the transcontinental railroad in 1869 and the subsequent development of the mining industry facilitated the migration of many persons of other faiths, cultures, and regions to Utah. Chinese immigrated to construct the 26 Utah's Health: An Annual Review Volume LX |
