Asian American population:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Demographics_of_Asian_AmericansAncestry Population
2000 Population
2010 Percent change
Bangladeshi 46,905 142,080 202.9%
Bhutanese 192 18,814 9,699.0%
Burmese 14,620 95,536 553.5%
Cambodian 183,769 255,497 39.0%
Chinese 2,564,190 3,535,382 37.9%
Filipino 1,908,125 2,649,973 38.9%
Hispanic 119,829 – –
Hmong 174,712 252,323 44.4%
Indian 1,718,778 2,918,807 69.8%
Indonesian 44,186 63,383 69.7%
Japanese 852,237 841,824 −1.2%
Korean 1,099,422 1,463,474 33.1%
Laotian 179,103 209,646 17.1%
Malaysian 15,029 21,868 45.5%
Maldivian 29 102 251.7%
Mongolian 3,699 15,138 309.2%
Nepalese 8,209 57,209 596.9%
Okinawan 6,138 5,681 −7.4%
Pakistani 164,628 382,994 132.6%
Singaporean 2,017 4,569 126.5%
Sri Lankan 21,364 41,456 94.0%
Taiwanese 118,827 199,387 67.6%
Thai 120,918 182,872 51.2%
Vietnamese 1,169,672 1,632,717 39.6%
Other Asian,
not specified 162,913 238,332 46.3%
Total 10,242,998 14,674,252 43.3%
Indonesia is the third most populous country in Asia, and the fourth most populous in the world. Yet, the Indonesian population in the US is lower than that of the Burmese-Americans, considerably lower than the Cambodian- and Laotian-American populations (which is somewhat understandable, considering US war history), and not much larger than the Nepali-American community. Also compare the Indonesian community to the Filipino one! (The Philippines was a US colony, but still...)
Why is that? Are Indonesians just more likely to stay at home?
