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Koreans in Indonesia numbered 78,676 individuals as of 2018, making them the 13th-largest population of overseas Koreans, according to South Korea's Ministry of Foreign Affairs. The number has increased significantly from the previous record, which was around 50,000 people.
There are numbers of North Koreans living in the United States, despite North Korean citizens being unable to freely emigrate out of their country. As of 2022, Americans of Korean descent composed an estimated 0.5% of the population, or 1,501,587 people. [1]
As of the 2010 U.S. Census there were 11,813 ethnic Koreans in Harris County, Texas, in the Houston area, making up 4.2% of the county's Asian population. [1] In 2015 Haejin E. Koh, author of "Korean Americans in Houston: Building Bridges across Cultures and Generations," wrote in regards to the census figure that "community leaders believe the number is twice as large."
In 1990 there were 6,571 ethnic Koreans, making up 6% of the county's Asian population. In 2000 this figure had increased to 8,764, making up 4.5% of the county's Asian population. The number of Koreans increased by 35% from 2000 to 2010. [25]
As of 2023, the United States, which is home to the largest population of overseas Koreans, has the following distribution of Korean Americans. In California, there are 558,338 Korean Americans. New York City has a Korean American population of 141,745. Texas is home to 115,107 Korean Americans. New Jersey's Korean American community numbers ...
The Korean population in borough of Manhattan has nearly doubled to approximately 20,000 since the 2000 Census. [49] As of 2014, there were 180 franchisees of Korean coffeehouse chain Caffe Bene in the metro area. [50] Korean Air and Asiana Airlines provide non-stop flights from Seoul to JFK Airport. [51] [52]
In fact, the per capita Korean population of Bergen County, New Jersey, in the New York Metropolitan Area, at 6.5% as of 2022, [48] is the highest of any county in the United States, [49] including all of the nation's top ten municipalities by percentage of Korean population per the 2010 U.S. Census, [42] while the concentration of Korean ...
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 overall population is highly urbanized [9] and is concentrated in the West Coast of the United States and New York metropolitan area. [6]