{"id":223662,"date":"2025-05-01T13:51:53","date_gmt":"2025-05-01T17:51:53","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/alpha.pewresearch.org\/pewresearch-org\/?post_type=fact-sheet&p=223662"},"modified":"2025-05-01T13:51:55","modified_gmt":"2025-05-01T17:51:55","slug":"asian-americans-mien-in-the-u-s","status":"publish","type":"fact-sheet","link":"https:\/\/alpha.pewresearch.org\/pewresearch-org\/race-and-ethnicity\/fact-sheet\/asian-americans-mien-in-the-u-s\/","title":{"rendered":"Facts about Mien in the U.S."},"content":{"rendered":"
Fact Sheets: Asian Americans<\/a><\/div>
All Asians<\/a>Bangladeshis<\/a>Bhutanese<\/a>Burmese<\/a>Cambodians<\/a>Chinese<\/a>Filipinos<\/a>Hmong<\/a>Indians<\/a>Indonesians<\/a>Japanese<\/a>Koreans<\/a>Laotians<\/a>Malaysians<\/a>Mien<\/a>Mongolians<\/a>Nepalese<\/a>Pakistanis<\/a>Sri Lankans<\/a>Taiwanese<\/a>Thai<\/a>Uzbeks<\/a>Vietnamese<\/a><\/div><\/div>\n\n\n

An estimated 30,000 people in the United States identified as Mien in 2023, according to estimates published by the U.S. Census Bureau.[1. This population estimate is based on U.S. Census Bureau tabulations of the 2023 American Community Survey and includes people who identify as Mien alone or in combination with any other race, ethnicity or origin.] Mien Americans are the 23rd-largest Asian origin population living in the U.S., accounting for approximately 0.1% of the country\u2019s Asian population.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The Mien population includes people living in the United States who self-identify as Mien. This includes people who identify as Mien through their or their family\u2019s origins, including immigrants from China, Vietnam, Thailand or Laos and those born in the U.S. or elsewhere. It also includes people who identify as Mien alone and no other race or Asian origin \u2013 who account for 70% of the population \u2013 as well as people who identify as Mien in combination with any other race, ethnicity or Asian origin.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Due to data limitations, the following facts about the Mien population are based on people who identify as Mien alone <\/strong>and no other race or Asian origin.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

This fact sheet is a profile of the geographic, social and demographic, and economic characteristics of the Mien-alone population in the U.S. It at times compares the characteristics of Mien Americans with characteristics of the U.S. Asian population overall. These detailed tabulations are based on Pew Research Center analysis of the 2023 American Community Survey (ACS). (For more information, refer to the methodology<\/a>.)<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Detailed tables:<\/em><\/strong> U.S. Asian population data by origin groups<\/a><\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Population<\/h3>\n\n\n\n

About 19,000 people in the U.S. identify as Mien alone and no other race or Asian origin, according to Center analysis of the 2023 ACS. This is the first year that Mien respondents were identified separately from other Asian origin groups in the IPUMS ACS data.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Immigrants made up 41% of the Mien-alone population in the U.S. in 2023, or 8,000 people. By comparison, 54% of the overall U.S. Asian population were immigrants in 2023.<\/p>\n\n\n

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Note: The population shown includes those who identify as Mien alone and no other race or Asian origin. All figures are rounded according to rules shown in the methodology.<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t\t
Source: Pew Research Center analysis of the 2023 American Community Survey (IPUMS).<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t\t
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