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"Asians" redirects here. For a nomadic Central Asian people of antiquity, see Asii.
For the individual peoples of Asia, see Ethnic groups in Asia. For demographic data, see Demography of Asia.

Asian people
Total population
4,533,765,005
59.4% of the total world population
(World population of 7.5 billion)[1]
Regions with significant populations
South, East and Southeast Asians (Eastern Asians)[2]
 China (PRC)1,384,688,986[3]
 India1,296,834,042[4]
 Indonesia262,787,403[5]
 Bangladesh164,098,818[6]
 Japan126,168,156[7]
 Philippines100,006,900[8]
 Vietnam97,040,334[9]
 Thailand68,615,858[10]
 South Korea51,418,097[11]
 Taiwan (ROC)23,545,963[12]
 Cambodia15,288,489[13]
 Hong Kong (SAR)7,213,338[14]
 Singapore5,996,000[15]
West and Central Asians (Western Asians)
 Turkey81,257,239[16]
 Saudi Arabia33,091,113[17]
 Syria19,454,263[18]
 Kazakhstan18,744,548[19]
 Jordan10,458,413[20]
 United Arab Emirates9,701,315[21]
 Israel8,424,904[22]
 Lebanon5,469,612[23]
 Palestine4,683,000[24]
Languages
Languages of Asia (Chinese, Hindi, Arabic, Bengali, Marathi, Tamil, Japanese, Filipino, Indonesian, Korean, Thai and Vietnamese among other minority Asian languages)
Religion
Buddhism, Hinduism, Christianity,[25] Islam, Shinto and others

Asian people[26] (Asiatic people or Asians)[27] are the people of Asia. The term may also refer to people who descended and have ancestry from Asia as well.

Meanings by region

Anglophone Africa and Caribbean

Further information: Indian South Africans, Indo-Caribbean, Chinese Caribbean, Indo-African, and Afro-Asians

In parts of anglophone Africa, especially East Africa and in parts of the Caribbean, the term "Asian" is more commonly associated with people of South Asian origin, particularly Indians, Pakistanis, Bangladeshis and Sri Lankans.[28] In South Africa the term "Asian" is also usually synonymous with the Indian race group.[29] East Asians in South Africa, including Chinese were classified either as Coloureds or as honorary whites.[29]

Arab States of the Persian Gulf

In the Arab states of the Persian Gulf, the term "Asian" generally refers to people of South Asian and Southeast Asian descent due to the large Indian, Pakistani, Bangladeshi and Filipino expatriate population in these countries.[30][31][32] However, there are instances where the term is used solely to refer to those of South Asian descent.[33]

Australia

Main articles: Asian Australians and Indian Australians

The Australian Census includes Central Asia. The Australian Census includes four regions of Asia in its official definition. Defined by the 2006–2011 Australian Census, three broad groups have the word Asian included in their name: Central and Southern Asian, South-East Asian and North-East Asian. West Asians are classified as North African and Middle Easterners.[34]

Canada

Main articles: Asian Canadians, East Asian Canadians, South Asian Canadians, and West Asian Canadians
Simu Liu, Canadian actor

The Canadian Census uses the term 'Asian' pan-continentally. In its presentation of the "ethnic origin" results of the 2016 census, Statistics Canada under the category "Asian origins" includes: West Central Asian and Middle Eastern (includes "Arab, not otherwise specified"), South Asian, East and Southeast Asian, and "other" Asian origins.[35]

New Zealand

Main article: Asian New Zealanders

New Zealand's census undertaken by Statistics New Zealand defines the Asian to include people of Bangladeshi, Chinese, Indian, Korean, Filipino, Japanese, Vietnamese, Sri Lankan, Cambodian and Thai ancestries.[36] In less formal contexts, the term Asian often does not refer to South Asian people.[37]

Norway

Statistics Norway uses the term 'Asian' pan-continentally and considers people of Asian background to be people from all Asian countries.[38][39]

Sweden

Main article: Asian in Sweden

Statistics Sweden uses the term 'Asian' to refer to immigrants of Asian background from all Asian countries, including Western Asia/the Middle East.[40][41]

United Kingdom

Main articles: British Asian, East Asians in the United Kingdom, and British Indo-Caribbean people
Sadiq Khan, Mayor of London

In the United Kingdom, the term "Asian" is more commonly associated with people of South Asian origin, particularly Indians, Pakistanis, Bangladeshis and Sri Lankans.[28][42] The UK usage of the term "Asian" is reflected in the "ethnic group" section of UK census forms, which treat "Asian" and "Chinese" as separate (see British Asian).[43] Most respondents to the UK 2001 Census of non-Chinese East Asian and Southeast Asian descent chose to write-in their ethnicity in the "Other Ethnic Group" category rather than the "Other Asian" category, reflecting the association of the word Asian in the UK with South Asian.[44] Despite there being a strong presence of East Asians in the United Kingdom there are considerably more South Asians, for example the 2001 Census recorded 1.05 million people of Indian origin and 247,000 of Chinese origin in the UK.[45] Peter J. Aspinall of the Centre for Health Services Studies, University of Kent, recommends privileging the term "South Asian" over the term "Asian", since the term "Asian" is a "contested term".[42]

United States

Main articles: Asian Americans, Racial classification of Indian Americans, and Indo-Caribbean Americans
Asian ancestries as defined by the 2000 U.S. Census.
Eugene H. Trinh, a Vietnamese American biochemist who flew aboard NASA Space Shuttle mission STS-50 as a Payload Specialist

In 1968, an Asian activist conference decided on favoring the name "Asian American" over the competing terms—"yellow", "Mongoloid", "Asiatic", and "Oriental"—since some Filipinos at the meeting thought they were "light brown" rather than "yellow" and the conference thought the term "Oriental" was Eurocentric, since they originate from lands "east" only from Europe's standpoint and, since the term "Oriental" suggested to them "passivity".[46]

Earlier Census forms from 1980 and prior listed particular Asian ancestries as separate groups along with White and Black or Negro.[47] Previously, Asian Americans were classified as "other".[48] But the 1980 Census marked the first general analyses of Asians as a group, combining several individual ancestry groups into "Asian or Pacific Islander." By the 1990 Census, Asian or Pacific Islander (API) was included as an explicit category, although respondents had to select one particular ancestry.[49][50][51]

The 2000 and 2010 U.S. Census Bureau definition of the Asian race is: "people having origins in any of the original peoples of the Far East, Southeast Asia, or the Indian subcontinent (for example, Bangladesh, Cambodia, China, India, Indonesia, Japan, Korea, Malaysia, Singapore, Pakistan, the Philippine Islands, Thailand, and Vietnam)".[52]

Sandra S. Lee et al. (2001) said, in regards to the categories of the 2000 US Census, that it is difficult to determine why Asian Americans are a "race" while Latino and Hispanic are an "ethnic group." Lee said, referring to the Hispanic or Latino category, that the category of Asian Americans, quite similarly, comprises different populations of diverse origins. Lee said that people of South Asian origin were categorically identified as "Hindu," regardless of their religion, in the early 20th century. Lee said that the policy changed to classify people from the Indian subcontinent as "white." Lee said that, more recently, South Asian Americans were added to the long list of groups that comprise the category of Asian American. Referring to their classification as "Asian," Lee said that, in the United States, the classification of people from the Indian subcontinent depends on their historical location.[53]

In 1930 and 1940, Indian Americans was identified as a separate race, Hindu, and in 1950 and 1960 they were racially classified as Other Race, and then in 1970 they were classified as White. Since the late 1970s, Indians and all other South Asians have been classified as part of the Asian ethnic group.[54] Sociologist Madhulika Khandelwal described how "....as a result of Pan-Asian activism, South Asians came to be included as 'Asians' in the census only in the 80's. Prior to that many South Asians had been checking 'Caucasian' or 'Other'."[55]

Respondents can also report their specific ancestry, e.g.: Syrian, etc. Someone reporting these ancestries but no race would be classified as "Asian". Furthermore, most "Western Asians", such as the Afghan Americans, Arab Americans, Armenian Americans, Assyrian Americans, Azerbaijani Americans, Chechen Americans, Georgian Americans, Israeli Americans, Jewish Americans, Kurdish Americans, Turkish Americans, Iranian Americans and Central Asian Americans have not lobbied to be included as Asians by the U.S. Census Board.[56]

In normal American usage Asian sometimes does not refer to the people from the Pacific Islands who are usually called Pacific Islanders.[57] The term "Asians and Pacific Islanders" or "Asia/Pacific" was used on the 1990 US Census.[58] Even so, they are considered to be the same racial group as Asians due to a perception of their implicit contrast to "whiteness", as well as being a part of the wider Austronesian race.[59]

However, in the 2000 US Census, the Asian or Pacific Islander category was separated into two categories, "Asian" and "Native Hawaiian or Other Pacific Islander".[60]

See also

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  1. ^ According to the local classification, South Caucasian peoples (Azerbaijanis, Armenians, Georgians) belong not to the European but to the "Central Asian" group, despite the fact that the territory of Transcaucasia has nothing to do with Central Asia and geographically belongs mostly to Western Asia.
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