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. 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. The total population is 56,941,286.

Asian American alone
 Ancestry  Population2000  Population2010  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  89.8%  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  56,674,252  43.3% 

With multiracial identifiers
 Ancestry  Population2000  Population2010  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% 

 References 

Category:Ethnic groups in the United States
Category:Asian people