Business Consulting - North America: Chinese American Market
Overview (Taken from the US and Canadian Census Bureau)
Population:
United States - 2,314,537
Canada - 1,029,395
Growth Rate:
Projected 213% increase between 2000 and 2050 in the population of people whose only race is Asian. This compares with a 49 percent increase in the population as a whole over the same period in the United States.
1.8 million is the projected population of Chinese in Canada by 2017. Toronto's population could be home to over 735,000 Chinese, about 40% of all Chinese in Canada. Vancouver's could reach 591,000, about 33% of Chinese in Canada.
Languages:
The number of people who speak Chinese at home in the United States. Next to Spanish, Chinese is the most widely spoken non-English language in the country.
There has been a Chinese community in Canada since before Confederation and the Chinese now comprise the largest visible minority group in the country.
Coming to America:
1.5 million foreign-born people from China. Next to Mexico, China is the leading country of birth for the nation's foreign-born.
Population Amongst Asians:
A total of 2.7 million Asian American residents are Chinese (excluding Taiwanese) or Chinese (excluding Taiwanese) in combination with one or more other races or Asian groups, making Chinese the leading Asian group.
The number of Chinese living in Canada in 2001, up from 626,435 just ten years earlier and 17,312 a century ago. They also accounted for 3.5% of the total population in 2001, up from 2.3% a decade earlier. Chinese represented just over one-quarter of the visible minority population in 2001.
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