Asian Americans are Americans with ancestry from the continent of Asia. According to annual estimates from the U.S. Census Bureau, as of July 1, 2024, the Asian population was estimated at 22,080,844,
Five images of the Filipino settlement at Saint Malo, Louisiana
Jerry Yang, billionaire co-founder of the search engine Yahoo!. He is currently the founding partner of the venture fund AME Cloud Ventures
Steve Chen (middle), co-founder of YouTube.
Jensen Huang, billionaire, founder and CEO of Nvidia, the largest AI conglomerate and the largest company in the world as of November 2024
Chinese Americans are Americans of Chinese ancestry. They have ancestors from mainland China, Hong Kong, Macau, Malaysia, Singapore, Taiwan, and other regions of the Chinese diaspora, especially South
Asian Americans
…anthropologically or genetically. The "Asian" census category includes people who indicate their race(s) on the census as "Asian" or reported entries such as "Chinese, Indian, Bangladeshi, Filipino, Vietnamese, Indonesian, Korean, Japanese, Pakistani, Thai, and Other Asian". In 2020, Americans who identified as Asian…
Chinese American miners in the Colorado School of Mines' Edgar Experimental Mine near Idaho Springs, Colorado, c. 1920
Chinese American Shell Peddlers (1918)
Chinese American fisherman at Monterey, CA, circa 1875
Percentage of Chinese population in the United States, 2000