The latest statistics show that the Asian American population has reached 24 million nationwide. (Photo credit: Internet)
On Thursday, April 29, the Pew Research Center (Pew) released an analysis of 2019 national census data showing that the number of Asians in the United States has reached 24 million. The center also predicts that Asians will be the largest immigrant group in the United States by 2060.
The U.S. Census is conducted every 10 years. The latest census data show that the total U.S. population has grown by 7.4 percentage points over the past 10 years, reaching a total of 331 million people as of April 1, 2020, of which 24 million are of Asian descent.
In its analysis, the Pew Research Center predicts that the number of Asians in the United States will increase to 46 million in 40 years, by 2060. Asians will then be the largest immigrant group in the United States.
Pew’s analysis shows that the Asian population in the United States comes from 19 ethnic groups of Asian origin, with Chinese accounting for 23 percent of the Asian population in the United States.
In terms of geographic distribution, approximately 45 percent of Asian Americans live in western U.S. states and 24 percent live in southern U.S. states. The analysis also found that 57 percent of Asian Americans were born outside of the United States.
The data show that the number of Asian Americans from the Asian countries of Bhutan, Nepal and Myanmar grew the fastest in the 10-year period from 2000 to 2019, while the number of people from Japan and Laos grew the slowest.
A 2017 Pew Center report showed that about 10 percent of the married population (about 11 million people) in U.S. society has a partner of a different ethnicity. Among them, Asians became the ethnic group with the highest percentage of interracial marriages in 2015, accounting for 29 percent of the total. Asian women also had the highest percentage of interracial marriages of any ethnicity at 36 percent, followed by Hispanic women at 28 percent, and African-American and white women at only 12 percent and 10 percent, respectively.
In terms of the mix of interracial marriages, Hispanics had the highest percentage of marriages to whites at 42 percent, followed by African-Americans and whites at 15 percent.
The 2017 report also shows that people from Asian countries make up 14 percent of the nation’s 10.5 million undocumented immigrants.
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