WASHINGTON: The number of Hindus migrating to the US every year has more than doubled in the last one decade, with an overwhelming majority of them coming from India, a new study released today said. An average of about 30,000 Hindus were admitted each year in the 1990s, by contrast, the US admitted an estimated 70,000 Hindu immigrants in 2012, the prestigious Pew Research Center said in its ...
U.S. immigration trends show increasing numbers of Muslims, Hindus
A Pew Research Center survey of Asian Americans in 2012, combined with U.S. Census data, suggests that the number of Hindus in the United States also has been increasing in large part due to rising immigration over the past two decades.
The Pew Forum on Religion and Public Life looked primarily at legal immigration.
