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Statistic 1Statistic 2Statistic 3Cultural Makeup13.1 million U.S.residents are Asian or Asian in combinationwith other races943,000 are nativeHawaiian and other Pacificislander or native Hawaiianand other Pacific islander in combination with one or more other races33.4 million-U.S. residentswho will identifythemselves as Asian alonein 2050Financial$52,018-income of households whosehouseholders reportedtheir race as either Asianor native Hawaiian andother Pacific islander 10.2%-poverty rate in 2002for those who reportedtheir race as either Asian or native Hawaiian and other Pacific islander  NationalityA total of 2.7 millionAsian Americanresidents are Chinese(excluding Taiwanese) or Chinese (excludingTaiwanese) incombination with one or more other races or Asian groups95%-The percentage of Asian and Pacific islanderswho live in metropolitanareasThe largest Pacific islander groups are native Hawaiian(401,000) and Samoan(133,000)Education47%-percentage of Asians and Pacificislanders age 25 and over with a bachelor’s degreeor higher 87%-The percentage of Asians and Pacificislanders 25 and over whoare high school graduates16%-The percentage of Asians and Pacificislanders 25 and over withan advanced degreeCareerAbout 75 percent of Asian and Pacificislander men age 16 andover and 59 percent of women are in the civilianlabor force105,300-The number of  physicians and surgeonswho report Asian as their only race and who are notHispanic89,000 non-Hispanic Asian postsecondary teachers;43,000 chief executives;20,000 lawyers; 3,000news analysts, reportersand correspondents; and200 legislators.Demographics26%The percentage of Asiansand Pacific islanderswho are under 187 percent are 65 or older73%The percentage of Asianand Pacific islander households made up of families. Among these,nearly 2-in-10 have five or more membersLifestyle351,000The number of AsianAmerican militaryveterans8.3 millionThe number of foreign- born residents in theUnited States who were born in Asia. Asian-bornresidents comprise one-fourth of the nation’s totalforeign-born population2.0 millionThe number of people whospeak Chinese at home. Next to Spanish, Chineseis the most widely spokennon-English language inthe country. French andGerman rank third andfourth, but Tagalog (1.2million) ranks fifth,Vietnamese (1.0 million)sixth and Korean (894,000)eighth. The number of Vietnamese speakers andthe number of Italianspeakers (in seventh place)are not statisticallydifferent.
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