Facts about Asian-Pacific Americans

An Asian-Pacific American is generally defined as a person of Asian ancestry and American citizenship, although may also be extended to include non-citizen resident Asians and Pacific Islanders as well. Today, Asian-Pacific American is the accepted term for most formal purposes, such as government and academic research, although the term is often shortened to Asian in common usage.

Asian-Pacific encompasses all of the Asian continent, from Turkey, in the west, to Japan, in the far east, to Indonesia, in the south, and the Pacific islands of Melanesia (New Guinea, New Caledonia, Vanuatu, Fiji and the Solomon Islands), Micronesia (Marianas, Guam, Wake Island, Palau, Marshall Islands, Kiribati, Nauru and the Federated States of Micronesia) and Polynesia (New Zealand, Hawaiian Islands, Rotuma, Midway Islands, Samoa, American Samoa, Tonga, Tuvalu, Cook Islands, French Polynesia and Easter Island).

The demographics of Asian-Pacific Americans describe a heterogeneous group of people in the United States who can trace their ancestry to one or more countries in Asia. Asian Americans total 4.3% of the entire U.S. population, however, some of the ethnic groups have the highest income and education of any American groups.

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