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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.
The history of Chinese Americans or the history of ethnic Chinese in the United States includes three major waves of Chinese immigration to the United States, beginning in the 19th century.
Chinese Americans are the largest Asian origin group in the U.S., making up 24% of the Asian population, or 5.4 million people. The next two largest origin groups are Indian Americans, who account for 21% of the total (4.6 million people), and Filipinos, who account for 19% (or 4.2 million people).
About 4.7 million Chinese Americans lived in the United States as of 2022, according to data from the U.S. Census Bureau. They account for 19% of the nation’s total Asian American population. Six-in-ten Chinese Americans are immigrants, while four-in-ten are U.S. born.
The United States is the top destination for Chinese immigrants worldwide, accounting for about 28 percent of the 8.6 million Chinese living outside China, Hong Kong, or Macau, according to mid-2020 estimates by the United Nations Population Division.
Figures for Chinese and all Asians based on mixed-race and mixed-group populations, regardless of Hispanic origin. See methodology for more detail. Source: Pew Research Center analysis of 2017-2019 American Community Survey (IPUMS).
The nation’s most populous Asian alone or in any combination group in 2020 was the Chinese, except Taiwanese population with 5.2 million, an increase of 37.2% since 2010.
The identity “Chinese American” began as a way for recently immigrated Chinese citizens to claim their “Americanness” to assimilate better into a country that often alienated anyone who wasn’t white, Protestant, and male while simultaneously remembering their Chinese heritage.
US state-level data on Chinese Americans.
With 5.3 million people, Chinese Americans are the largest group, representing 22% of the Asian American population. The next largest groups are Indian Americans (20% of all Asian Americans), Filipino Americans (16%), Vietnamese Americans (10%), Korean Americans (8%), and Japanese Americans (7%).