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Asian Hispanic and Latino Americans Estadounidenses hispanos y latinos asiáticos; Total population; 598,146 [1] [2] as of the 2010 United States Census including multiracial persons 0.2% of the total US population (2010) 4.1% of all Asian Americans (2010) 1.2% of all Latino Americans (2010) Regions with significant populations
Brazil is home to the largest population of East Asian descent, estimated at 2.08 million. [1] [11] The country is also home to a large percentage of West Asian descendants. [12] With as much as 5% of their population having some degree of Chinese ancestry, Peru and Mexico have the highest ratio of any country for East Asian descent. [3]
The 2020 United States Census reported approximately 19.9 million people identified as Asian alone in 2020. Adding in the 4.1 million respondents who identified as Asian in combination with another race group, the Asian American population comprised 24 million people (7.2% of the total population). [8]
The current world population growth is approximately 1.09%. [7] People under 15 years of age made up over a quarter of the world population (25.18%), and people age 65 and over made up nearly ten percent (9.69%) in 2021. [7] The world population more than tripled during the 20th century from about 1.65 billion in 1900 to 5.97 billion in 1999.
About half or more of the Chinese ethnic people in the U.S. in the 1980s had roots in Taishan, Guangdong, [9] a city in southern China near the major city of Guangzhou. In general, much of the Chinese population before the 1990s consisted of Cantonese or Taishanese-speaking people from southern China, predominately from Guangdong province.
The United States has a racially and ethnically diverse population. [1] At the federal level, race and ethnicity have been categorized separately. The most recent United States census recognized five racial categories (White, Black, Native American/Alaska Native, Asian, and Native Hawaiian/Other Pacific Islander), as well as people who belong to two or more of the racial categories.
The demographics of Hispanic and Latino Americans depict a population that is the second-largest ethnic group in the United States, 62 million people or 18.7% of the national population. [1] The Latino population is much younger than the rest of the country, of no less than two dozen national origins and of every race, with a longer life ...
The Asian American population is greatly urbanized, with nearly three-quarters of them living in metropolitan areas with population greater than 2.5 million. [58] As of July 2015, California had the largest population of Asian Americans of any state, and Hawaii was the only state where Asian Americans were the majority of the population. [59]