Before this I have always thought that number
of Indian Americans is only 2nd after the Chinese in the USA.
However, the latest data says Indian Americans are the most numerous Asians in
the US as of now.
Currently there are 5.1 million Indian
Americans in the US, while the US population is estimated to be 34.60
crores. So Indian Americans account for 1.47% of the US population. The
American Chinese number only 4.7 million making them 2nd most
populous among Asian countries.
Indians contribute about USD 300 billion in tax
to the Federal treasury while the total US tax revenue is 4.92 trillion USD. So
Indian Americans contribute about 6.1% of the American tax revenue which is
about 4 times their proportion of the population.
A 2019 survey has shown that Indian American
households have a median annual income of 132,000 USD compared to 64,000 USD for
all immigrants and 66,000 USD for American households. According to the 2023
American census data the Indian American Median income has gone up to 157,000
USD.
The World Bank pegs the per capita of the US to
be 81,695 USD in 2023. That means the average per capita income of Indian
Americans would be 4 times based on the tax they pay and should be around 325,000 USD. That is very high
indeed and is at variance with the American Indian median family income given in the earlier paragraph. This high figure on extrapolation certainly shocks me and our friends in the US would be
able to throw more light on that.
Among the states, California has the highest
Indian American population at over 830,000. Texas has the 2nd
highest at over 480,000, New Jersey 3rd with over 415,000, and New York 4th
with over 387,000.
In the least numbers, Wyoming just has 522
Indian Americans living in the state, Montana just 726, and Alaska 857.
All the above figures are from the year 2022
and it is likely that the number would be higher now in all the states.
Language-wise as per 2021 data there were over 864,000
Hindi speaking, over 507,000 Urdu speaking, over 459,000 Telugu-speaking, over
436,000 Gujarati, over 403,000 Bengali, over 341,000 Tamil, and over 318,000
Punjabi.
Telugu people in the USA numbered a mere 67543
in the year 2000. Today in 2024 there are 12, 39,000 Telugu people in the USA
and they account for 24% of the Indian population in the USA. Between the years
2010-2021, in 11 years’ time, their population has gone up by 111%.
A study conducted by Dukes University-UC Berkeley
revealed that between the years 1995 and 2005; Indian immigrants have founded
more Engineering and Tech companies than the immigrants for the UK, China, Taiwan
and japan combined.
Indian Americans have also risen to the top positions
at many major companies. The list includes
1.
Google
2.
Microsoft
3.
Facebook
4.
IBM
5.
Pepsico
6.
Mastercard
7.
Cisco
8.
Oracle
9.
Adobe
10.
Cognizant
11.
Sun
Microsystems
12.
Softbank
Indian Americans continuously outpace every
other ethnic group socioeconomically in the USA. Indians form the largest group
of physicians after Hispanics and account for 6% of all doctors in the USA.
