20. The Other Asian Population: 2000 to 2011-2013

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Abstract

In the 2011-2013 American Community Survey (ACS), 97 percent of all respondents (304.8 million) reported only one race. Approximately 16 million or about 5 percent of all respondents identified their race as Asian alone. The Asian alone population increased by 52 percent between 2000 and 2011-2013, more than any other major race group. The Asian alone population had the second-largest numeric change (5.3 mil¬lion), growing from 10.2 million in 2000 to about 16 million in 2011-2013.

The Asian population in the United States includes diverse peoples from many Asian countries. Studies on the Asian population have tended to focus on the largest detailed groups, such as Chinese and Asian Indian. However, the smaller detailed Asian groups, often subsumed under the “Other Asian” race category, have experienced the fastest growth rates from 2000 to 2011-2013. For example, the Nepalese population grew by about 986 percent, adding about 78,000 people between 2000 and 2011-2013. The Burmese population grew by approximately 765 percent, with an increase of more than 101,000 during the same period.

This poster presents a portrait of the “Other Asian population” single detailed groups (with population size of 20,000 or more in the 2011-2013 ACS), including Bangladeshi, Burmese, Cambodian, Hmong, Indonesian, Laotian, Nepalese, Pakistani, Sri Lankan, and Thai. We examine the groups’ population size and growth at the national and subnational levels using data from Census 2000 and the 2011-2013 ACS. We also highlight some of their demographic and socioeconomic characteristics compared with the Asian alone and U.S. populations.

Authors

• Stella U. Ogunwole, U.S. Census Bureau

• Myoung Ouk Kim, U.S. Census Bureau

• Bashir Ahmed, U.S. Census Bureau