After the Immigration and Nationality Act of 1965 removed national-origin quotas strongly favoring European immigration, the Korean immigrant population grew significantly. servicemen, a cohort sometimes known as the Korean War Brides. Immigration from the Korean peninsula in the mid-20th century began in the aftermath of the Korean War, when more than 6,000 Korean women came as wives and fiancées of U.S. Immigrants from the Korean peninsula, who come overwhelmingly from South Korea, represent the tenth largest immigrant population in the United States, making up slightly more than 2 percent of the 44.9 million immigrants in 2019, and are the fifth largest group from Asia. By contrast, the overall immigrant population in the United States increased by 12 percent between 20. Though the decline is far smaller than for the Mexican immigrant population in the United States, which shrank by almost 780,000 between 20, the Korean-born population fell from 1.1 million to 1,039,000 over the same period. The population of immigrants from the Korean peninsula in the United States is one of the rare large foreign-born groups to experience a stall in its growth, and even a decline, over the past decade, amid an aging population and booming economic opportunities and a demographic crunch in South Korea.
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