The Pew Hispanic Center released an interesting report last
year, finding based on 2009 and 2010 Census data that there are
31. 7 million Latinos of Mexican origin in the U.S., 4.4 million
Puerto Ricans (significantly more than the 3.7 million Puerto
Ricans on the island), 1.7 million Salvadorans, 1.6 million
Cubans, 1.3 million Dominicans and just over a million
Guatemaltecos. Data was also available for other groups, a
release from Pew about the “U.S. Hispanic Country of Origin
Counts for Nation, Top 30 Metropolitan Areas” report notes:
Hispanics of Mexican, Puerto Rican, and Cuban origin or descent
remain the nation’s three largest Hispanic country-of-origin
groups, according to the 2010 U.S. Census. However, while the
relative position of these three groups has remained unchanged
since 2000, the next four Hispanic sub-groups grew faster during
the decade. Hispanics of Salvadoran origin, the fourth largest
Hispanic country-of-origin group grew by 152% since 2000. The
Dominican population grew by 85%, the G