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 "_meta": {
  "built_on": "2026-07-22",
  "source": "Computed by MigrantUSA: consulate directory joined to Census foreign-born population",
  "consulate_source": "MigrantUSA consulate directory (each country's US consular offices)",
  "consulate_source_url": "https://migrantusa.com/consulates/",
  "population_source": "US Census Bureau, ACS 2024 5-year estimates: B05006 (foreign-born by country of birth), B03001 (Hispanic origin)",
  "population_source_url": "https://api.census.gov/data/2024/acs/acs5",
  "population_pulled_on": "2026-07-22",
  "method": "For each of 12 Latin American countries with a consular network in the US: the number of that country's consular offices in MigrantUSA's directory, the ACS 2024 5-year foreign-born population born in that country (table B05006), and the ratio of foreign-born nationals per consulate. Foreign-born is the closest available proxy for the people a consulate serves; it still includes naturalized US citizens. The broader origin community (B03001 ancestry, which also counts US-born descendants) is carried as a secondary figure but is not the ratio, because US-born citizens do not use a foreign consulate. A consulate serves an assigned jurisdiction, so 'per consulate' is a national average, not any one office's caseload. 'Consulates' are consulates general, consulates and consular agencies, plus an embassy's consular section where that is a country's only US consular office (Cuba); honorary consulates are excluded. Cuba runs a single consular section at its Washington embassy; Venezuela's four offices reflect the 2025-2026 reopening after relations were restored."
 },
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   "foreign_born_per_consulate": 1434529
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   "foreign_born": 202627,
   "foreign_born_per_consulate": 28947
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    "foreign_born_per_consulate": 1434529
   },
   {
    "country": "Mexico",
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    "foreign_born_per_consulate": 202379
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   {
    "country": "Venezuela",
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    "foreign_born_per_consulate": 176532
   },
   {
    "country": "Dominican Republic",
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    "foreign_born_per_consulate": 115024
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   {
    "country": "Colombia",
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   {
    "country": "Peru",
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    "foreign_born_per_consulate": 31165
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   {
    "country": "Guatemala",
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   {
    "country": "Nicaragua",
    "consulates": 7,
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   {
    "country": "Honduras",
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