3.5 million people [1](2020) 1.06% of the population
Regions with significant populations
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Middle Eastern Americans are Americans of Middle Eastern background. This includes people whose background is from the various Middle Eastern and West Asian ethnic groups, such as the Kurds and Assyrians, as well as immigrants from modern-day countries of the Arab world, Israel, Iran, Turkey, and Armenia.[2][3][4][5]
Although once considered Asian Americans, the modern definition of "Asian American" now excludes people with West Asian backgrounds.[6]
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^Gryn, Thomas; Gambino, Christine (October 2012). "The Foreign Born From Asia: 2011" (PDF). American Community Survey Briefs, ACSBR/11-06. U.S. Census Bureau. Archived from the original (PDF) on January 22, 2013. Retrieved November 16, 2015.
^Gibson, Campbell; Lennon, Emily (March 9, 1999). "Historical census statistics on the foreign-born population of the United – Region and Country or Area of Birth of the Foreign-Born Population: 1960 to 1990". Bureau of the Census. Population Division. U.S. Census Bureau. Archived from the original on March 27, 2010. Retrieved November 16, 2015.
^Batalova, Jeanne (May 24, 2011). "Asian Immigrants in the United States". Migration Information Source. Migration Policy Institute. Retrieved November 16, 2015. The U.S. Census Bureau defines Asian regions as: ... Western Asia includes Armenia, Azerbaijan, Bahrain, Georgia, Iraq, Israel, Jordan, Kuwait, Lebanon, Oman, Qatar, Saudi Arabia, Syria, Turkey, the United Arab Emirates, and Yemen.
^Auclair, Gregory; Batalova, Jeanne (September 26, 2013). "Middle Eastern and North African Immigrants in the United States". Migration Information Source. Migration Policy Institute. Retrieved December 16, 2013.
^Cortellessa, Eric (October 23, 2016). "Israeli, Palestinian Americans could share new 'Middle Eastern' census category". The Times Of Israel. Retrieved September 21, 2020. This derives from a 1915 court ruling in Dow v. United States, in which a Syrian American, George Dow, appealed his being classified by the government as Asian. At the time, such a designation resulted in the denial of citizenship under the 1882 Chinese Exclusion Act.
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