According to a new report by Pew Research Center, immigration is not the biggest contributor to the United States' growing Latino population anymore. Instead, Latino births in America itself are the biggest driving force.

Today, Pew Research Center released its "Hispanic Nativity Shift" report, which says that since 2000, the number of Latinos being born in the United States is growing more rapidly than the immigrant population. From 1980-2000, the biggest contributor to population growth was immigration.

"As a result, the foreign-born share of Latinos is now in decline," the report says. "Among Hispanic adults in 2012, 49.8 percent were born in another country, down from a peak of 55 percent in 2007. Among all Hispanics, the share foreign-born was 35.5 percent in 2012, down from about 40 percent earlier in the 2000s."

In addition, Mexicans are not coming to the U.S. as frequently as in the past. According to the report, these days, as many Mexicans are leaving the U.S. as they are entering. This comes after four decades of "explosive" Mexican population growth.

Still, the increasing Latino population is not expected to slow down anytime soon. In 2012, the U.S. Census Bureau predicted that by 2060, the Latino population would reach 129 million.

"Since 1970, the Latino population has increased sixfold, from 9.1 million to 53 million by 2012," the report continues. "Between 2000 and 2010, there were 9.6 million Hispanic births in the U.S., while the number of newly arrived immigrants was 6.5 million."

Obviously, this means that the U.S. can expect to see more Latino influence in the coming years.

"That's really a reflection of this wave of U.S.-born young people entering adulthood and having an impact demographically on everything from ... the labor market, colleges and universities and impacting a whole host of other institutions that are part of adulthood," Mark Lopez, Pew Research Center director of Hispanic research and co-author of the report, told USA Today.

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