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Asian Americans According To The U.S. Census Bureau: Appendix E
Asian Americans According To The U.S. Census Bureau: Appendix E
Part I
Organize statistics from the U.S. Census Bureau on Asian American diversity
using the matrix below. The Web site is available at
http://www.census.gov/Press-
Release/www/releases/archives/facts_for_features_special_editions/001738.h
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Cultural 13.1 million U.S. 943,000 who say they 33.4 million (projected
Makeup residents are Asian or are native Hawaiian and number) U.S. residents
Asian in combination other Pacific Islander or who will identify
with other races Native Hawaiian and themselves as Asian
Other Pacific Islander in alone in 2050
combination with one or
more races
Nationality A total of 2.7 million 95% The percentage of The largest Pacific
Asian American Asian and Pacific Islander groups are
residents are Islanders who live in Native Hawaiian
Chinese(excluding metropolitan areas (401,000) and Samoan
Taiwanese) in (133,000)
combination with one
or more other races or
Asian Group
Demographics 26% The percentage 7% are 65 or older at the 73% The percentage of
of Asians and Pacific other end of the age Asian and Pacific
Islanders who are spectrum. Islander households
under 18 made up of families.
Among these, nearly 2-
10 have five or more
members
Lifestyle 351,000 The number 8.3 million The number 2.0 million The number
of Asian American of foreign-born residents of people who speak
Military veterans in the United States’ Chinese at home. Next
who were born in Asia. to Spanish, Chinese is
Asian-born residents the most widely spoken
comprise 1/4th of the non-English language in
nation’s total foreign- the country. French and
born population. German rank a third and
fourth but Tagalong (1.2
million) ranks fifth.
Vietnamese (1.0 million)
sixth and Korean
(894,000) eighth. The
number of Vietnamese
speakers and the
number of Italian
speakers (in seventh)
are not statistically
different.
Part II