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Asian Pacific American Heritage Month
May 2004
 
 Photos
 
There are an estimated 943,000 U.S. residents who say they are native Hawaiian and other Pacific islander either alone or in combination with one or more other races. That’s roughly 1/3 of 1 percent of the total population. Photo by Norman Shapiro for the U.S. Census Bureau.
Chinese, Tagalog, Vietnamese and Korean are among the 10 most widely spoken languages other than English in the country. Photo by Lloyd Wolf for the U.S. Census Bureau.
The population group that identifies itself as Asian alone is projected to increase by 213% between 2000 and 2050. This compares with a 49 percent increase in the population as a whole over the same period. Photo by Lloyd Wolf for the U.S. Census Bureau.
There are 8.3 million foreign-born residents in the United States who were born in Asia. Asian-born residents comprise one-fourth of the nation’s total foreign-born population. Photo by Eric Furtan for the U.S. Census Bureau.
About 75 percent of Asian and native Hawaiian and other Pacific islander men age 16 and over and 59 percent of women in this age group are in the civilian labor force. Among these, 41 percent of men and 37 percent of women are in managerial and professional occupations. Photo by Lauren Brenner for the U.S. Census Bureau.
Forty-eight percent of the foreign-born population from Asia is made up of naturalized U.S. citizens. The Philippines is among the top 10 countries of birth for the U.S. foreign-born population. Photo by Eric Furtan for the U.S. Census Bureau.
 
For more information, call (301) 763-3011 or e-mail broadcast@census.gov.
 


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Last Revised: Wednesday, 19-May-2004 09:04:45 EDT

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