{"id":5877,"date":"2025-05-01T13:47:54","date_gmt":"2025-05-01T17:47:54","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/alpha.pewresearch.org\/pewresearch-org\/?p=5877"},"modified":"2025-05-01T13:47:56","modified_gmt":"2025-05-01T17:47:56","slug":"asian-americans-bhutanese-in-the-u-s","status":"publish","type":"fact-sheet","link":"https:\/\/alpha.pewresearch.org\/pewresearch-org\/race-and-ethnicity\/fact-sheet\/asian-americans-bhutanese-in-the-u-s\/","title":{"rendered":"Facts about Bhutanese 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 20,000 people in the United States identified as Bhutanese 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 Bhutanese alone or in combination with any other race, ethnicity or origin.] Bhutanese Americans are the 25th-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 Bhutanese population includes people living in the United States who self-identify as Bhutanese. This includes people who trace their or their family\u2019s origins to Bhutan, including immigrants from Bhutan and those born in the U.S. or elsewhere. It also includes people who identify as Bhutanese alone and no other race or Asian origin \u2013 who account for 73% of the population \u2013 as well as people who identify as Bhutanese in combination with any other race, ethnicity or Asian origin.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Due to data limitations, the following facts about the Bhutanese population are based on people who identify as Bhutanese 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 Bhutanese-alone population in the U.S. It at times compares the characteristics of Bhutanese Americans with characteristics of the U.S. Asian population overall. These detailed tabulations are based on Pew Research Center analysis of the 2021-23 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 14,000 people in the U.S. identify as Bhutanese alone and no other race or Asian origin, according to Center analysis of the 2021-23 ACS. The Bhutanese-alone population shrunk by roughly 12,000 since 2019, down from 25,000 \u2013 a 45% decrease over roughly the last half decade.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Immigrants made up 75% of the Bhutanese-alone population in the U.S. in 2023, a decrease from 85% in 2019. The number of Bhutanese immigrants in the country decreased from 22,000 to 11,000 people over that same period.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

(Data on the Bhutanese population in the U.S. is not available prior to 2012.)<\/p>\n\n\n

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Bhutanese population in the U.S., 2019-2023<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t\t
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Note: The population shown includes only those who identify as Bhutanese 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 2017-19 and 2021-23 American Community Surveys (IPUMS).<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t\t
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