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. Author manuscript; available in PMC: 2023 Oct 23.
Published in final edited form as: J Asian Health. 2021 Jul 14;1(1):e202103. doi: 10.59448/jah.v1i1.3

Table 2.

Demographics and health outcomes of aggregate and disaggregated Asian subgroups in the United States.

(Examples of Asian subgroup health outcome variation)
US population* (margin of error) Foreign-born population* Median household income* Poverty rate* (%) Bachelor’s degree or higher* (% of population ≥25 years old) Age-adjusted mortality rate per 100,000 for pancreatic cancer in women12 Percentage of mortality caused by heart disease in men11 Age- and-BMI standardized prevalence of diabetes mellitus type 2 in men17 (%) Increased bleeding due to anticoagulation gene variant CYP2C19*2 (frequency %)
Non-Hispanic White 236,475,401 (±99,212) 20,328,281 $69,823 10.3 34.4 9.4 27 8.60 13.383
Aggregate Asian 18,636,984 (±39,562) 12,236,195 $93,759 9.6 55.6 7.0 25.1 17.90 28.483
Asian Indian 4,240,466 (±49,699) 3,007,151 $126,705 5.9 75.7 4.1 31.3 24.80 North Indian - 33.183 South Indian - 36.883
Chinese 4,404,678 (±46,036) 3,036,492 $86,281 12.9 57.7 6.8 23.2 13.20 3284
Filipino 2,983,596 (±45,214) 1,925,602 $100,273 5.8 49.8 6.2 28.2 26.20 3984
Japanese 755,672 (±17,639) 312,537 $85,007 7.3 53.7 9.8 27.8 13.50 2384
Korean 1,461,843 (±29,473) 1,013,129 $76,674 11.2 58.9 8.5 19.2 16.80 28.485
Vietnamese 1,873,707 (±40,947) 1,257,169 $72,161 10.9 32 4.9 17.8 9.40 2486
*

2019 American Community Survey.15