DHS: Estimates of the Legal Permanent Resident Population in 2006

Estimates of the Legal Permanent Resident Population in 2006 (PDF, 5 pages): “This report provides estimates of the legal permanent resident population and population eligible to naturalize as of January 2006.”

  • “An estimated 12.1 million legal permanent residents (LPRs) were living in the United States on January 1, 2006. Of the 12.1 million, an estimated 8.2 million were eligible to naturalize. Between January 2004 and 2006, the total LPR population grew by 5 percent. The population eligible to naturalize increased 4 percent. Stability in the size of the LPR population partly reflects offsetting impacts from increases in both the number of persons becoming LPRs each year and in the rate at which LPRs are naturalizing. The total number of persons obtaining LPR status was about 20 percent higher during 2004-2006 compared to 2001-2003 (U.S. Department of Homeland Security, 2007). However, LPRs currently naturalize sooner than they did previously which reduces the size of the population.”
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