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

Ancestry	Population 2000	Population 2010	Percent change
Bangladeshi	46,905	147,300	202.9%
Bhutanese	192	19439	9,699.0%
Burmese	14,620	95,536	553.5%
Cambodian	183,769	255,497	39.0%
Chinese	2,564,190	3,535,382	37.9%
Filipino	1,908,125	2,649,973	38.9%
Hispanic	119,829	–	–
Hmong	174,712	252,323	44.4%
Indian	1,718,778	2,918,807	69.8%
Indonesian	44,186	63,383	69.7%
Japanese	852,237	841,824	−1.2%
Korean	1,099,422	1,463,474	33.1%
Laotian	179,103	209,646	17.1%
Malaysian	15,029	21,868	45.5%
Maldivian	29	102	251.7%
Mongolian	3,699	15,138	309.2%
Nepalese	8,209	57,209	596.9%
Okinawan	6,138	5,681	−7.4%
Pakistani	164,628	382,994	132.6%
Singaporean	2,017	4,569	126.5%
Sri Lankan	21,364	41,456	94.0%
Taiwanese	118,827	199,387	67.6%
Thai	120,918	182,872	51.2%
Vietnamese	1,169,672	1,632,717	39.6%
Other Asian, not specified	162,913	238,332	46.3%
Total	10,242,998	14,674,252	43.3%

With multiracial identifiers

Ancestry	Population 2000	Population 2010	Percent change
Bangladeshi	57,412	147,300	156.6%
Bhutanese	212	19,439	9,069.3%
Burmese	16,720	100,200	499.3%
Cambodian	206,052	276,667	34.3%
Chinese	2,865,232	4,010,114	40.0%
Filipino	2,364,815	3,416,840	44.5%
Hispanic	–	598,146	–
Hmong	186,310	260,073	39.6%
Indian	1,899,599	3,183,063	67.6%
Indonesian	63,073	95,270	51.0%
Japanese	1,148,932	1,304,286	13.5%
Korean	1,228,427	1,706,822	38.9%
Laotian	198,203	232,130	17.1%
Malaysian	18,566	26,179	41.0%
Maldivian	51	127	149.0%
Mongolian	5,868	18,344	212.6%
Nepalese	9,399	59,490	532.9%
Okinawan	10,599	11,326	6.9%
Pakistani	204,309	409,163	100.3%
Singaporean	2,394	5,347	123.4%
Sri Lankan	24,587	45,381	84.6%
Taiwanese	132,038	215,582	65.2%
Thai	150,283	237,583	58.1%
Vietnamese	1,223,736	1,737,433	42.0%
Other Asian, not specified	376,723	623,761	65.6%
Total	11,898,828	17,320,856	45.6%