Asian Americans

Asian Americans are Americans of Asian ancestry. The term refers to a group that includes diverse populations. They have ancestral origins in South Asia, East Asia. This includes people who indicate as "Chinese, Filipino, Indian, Korean, Japanese, Vietnamese, and Other Asian". Asian Americans with no other ancestry comprise 5.4% of the U.S. population.[1] Asian Americans are by capita the richest and highest earning ethnic group in America, due to their high educational attainment and strong family values.

Definition

The U.S. Census Bureau defines Asian as "A person having origins in any of the original peoples of the Far East, Southeast Asia, or the Indian subcontinent including, for example, Cambodia, China, India, Japan, Korea, Malaysia, Pakistan, the Philippine Islands, Thailand, and Vietnam."

Population

During the 2010 United States Census, the largest ethnic groups were Chinese American, Filipino Americans, Indian Americans, Vietnamese Americans, Korean Americans, and Japanese Americans.[2] The total population is 17,941,286.


Asian American alone
AncestryPopulation
2000		Population
2010		Percent change
Bangladeshi46,905147,300202.9%
Bhutanese192194399,699.0%
Burmese14,62095,536553.5%
Cambodian183,769255,49739.0%
Chinese2,564,1903,535,38237.9%
Filipino1,908,1252,649,97338.9%
Hispanic119,829––
Hmong174,712252,32344.4%
Indian1,718,7782,918,80769.8%
Indonesian44,18663,38369.7%
Japanese852,237841,824−1.2%
Korean1,099,4221,463,47433.1%
Laotian179,103209,64617.1%
Malaysian15,02921,86845.5%
Maldivian29102251.7%
Mongolian3,69915,138309.2%
Nepalese8,20957,209596.9%
Okinawan6,1385,681−7.4%
Pakistani164,628382,994132.6%
Singaporean2,0174,569126.5%
Sri Lankan21,36441,45694.0%
Taiwanese118,827199,38767.6%
Thai120,918182,87251.2%
Vietnamese1,169,6721,632,71739.6%
Other Asian,
not specified		162,913238,33246.3%
Total10,242,99814,674,25243.3%

With multiracial identifiers
AncestryPopulation
2000		Population
2010		Percent change
Bangladeshi57,412147,300156.6%
Bhutanese21219,4399,069.3%
Burmese16,720100,200499.3%
Cambodian206,052276,66734.3%
Chinese2,865,2324,010,11440.0%
Filipino2,364,8153,416,84044.5%
Hispanic–598,146–
Hmong186,310260,07339.6%
Indian1,899,5993,183,06367.6%
Indonesian63,07395,27051.0%
Japanese1,148,9321,304,28613.5%
Korean1,228,4271,706,82238.9%
Laotian198,203232,13017.1%
Malaysian18,56626,17941.0%
Maldivian51127149.0%
Mongolian5,86818,344212.6%
Nepalese9,39959,490532.9%
Okinawan10,59911,3266.9%
Pakistani204,309409,163100.3%
Singaporean2,3945,347123.4%
Sri Lankan24,58745,38184.6%
Taiwanese132,038215,58265.2%
Thai150,283237,58358.1%
Vietnamese1,223,7361,737,43342.0%
Other Asian,
not specified		376,723623,76165.6%
Total11,898,82817,320,85645.6%

References
  1. "US Census 2000" (PDF).
  2. Bureau, U.S. Census. "American FactFinder - Results". factfinder.census.gov. Archived from the original on 2017-09-12. Retrieved 2018-10-05.
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