Global InformationChinese Americans information
 Percentage of Chinese Americans per state as of the 2010 United States census | |
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| 5,238,790 (2021)[1] 1.58% of the total U.S. population (2021) | |
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| Traditional Chinese | 華裔美國人 | ||||||||||||||||||||||
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Chinese Americans are Americans of Chinese ancestry. Chinese Americans constitute a subgroup of East Asian Americans which also constitute a subgroup of Asian Americans. Many Chinese Americans have ancestors from mainland China, Hong Kong, Macau, Malaysia, Singapore, Taiwan,[4] as well as other regions that are inhabited by large populations of the Chinese diaspora, especially Southeast Asia and some other countries such as Australia, Canada, France, South Africa, New Zealand, and the United Kingdom. Chinese Americans include Chinese from the China circle and around the world who became naturalized U.S. citizens as well as their natural-born descendants in the United States.
The Chinese American community is the largest overseas Chinese community outside Asia. It is also the third-largest community in the Chinese diaspora, behind the Chinese communities in Thailand and Malaysia. The 2016 Community Survey of the U.S. Census estimated the population of Chinese Americans of one or more races to be 5,081,682.[5] According to the 2010 census, the Chinese American population numbered about 3.8 million.[6] In 2010, half of the Chinese-born people in the United States lived in California and New York.[7]
About half or more of the Chinese ethnic people in the U.S. in the 1980s had roots in Taishan, Guangdong,[8] 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. During the 1980s, more Mandarin-speaking immigrants from Northern China and Taiwan immigrated to the U.S.[9] In the 1990s, a large wave of Fujianese immigrants arrived in the US, many illegally, particularly in the NYC area. [10] The Chinese population in much of the 1800s and 1990s was almost entirely contained to the Western U.S., especially California and Nevada, as well as New York City. Originally, Chinese immigrants and their descendants generally[clarification needed] lived in Chinatowns (especially the ones in San Francisco and New York), or Chinese populated districts in downtowns of major cities.
- ^ "B02018 ASIAN ALONE OR IN ANY COMBINATION BY SELECTED GROUPS – 2021: 1-year estimates Detailed Tables – United States". United States Census Bureau.
- ^ "ACS DEMOGRAPHIC AND HOUSING ESTIMATES 2012 American Community Survey 1-Year Estimates New York-Newark-Bridgeport, NY-NJ-CT-PA CSA". U.S. Census Bureau. Archived from the original on 12 February 2020. Retrieved 27 October 2013.
- ^ "Asian Americans: A Mosaic of Faiths". The Pew Forum on Religion & Public Life. Pew Research Center. 19 July 2012. Archived from the original on 16 July 2013. Retrieved 15 February 2013.
Unaffiliated 52%, Protestant 22%, Buddhist 15%, Catholic 8%
- ^ Ng, Franklin (1998). The Taiwanese Americans. Greenwood Publishing Group. pp. 2, 118, 126. ISBN 978-0-313-29762-5.
- ^ U.S. Census Bureau. "American FactFinder – Results". factfinder.census.gov. Archived from the original on 14 February 2020. Retrieved 1 October 2017.
- ^ "Race Reporting for the Asian Population by Selected Categories: 2010". U.S. Census Bureau. Archived from the original on 12 October 2016. Retrieved 17 January 2012.
- ^ "Chinese Immigrants in the United States". Migration Policy Institute. January 2012. Archived from the original on 12 May 2012. Retrieved 30 June 2012.
- ^ Wu, Olivia (18 February 2007). "Young Americans find roots in China / S.F. program offers history and genealogy, helps locate relatives". SFGATE. Retrieved 22 May 2023.
- ^ "A New Community | Chinese | Immigration and Relocation in U.S. History | Classroom Materials at the Library of Congress | Library of Congress". Library of Congress, Washington, D.C. 20540 USA. Retrieved 22 May 2023.
- ^ Feng, Cindy. "EXPERIENCES OF FUJIANESE IMMIGRANTS". Retrieved 19 April 2024.