{"id":300219,"date":"2026-04-22T09:57:47","date_gmt":"2026-04-22T13:57:47","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/alpha.pewresearch.org\/pewresearch-org\/?post_type=short-read&p=300219"},"modified":"2026-05-04T09:34:07","modified_gmt":"2026-05-04T13:34:07","slug":"key-facts-about-native-hawaiians-and-pacific-islanders-in-the-u-s","status":"publish","type":"short-read","link":"https:\/\/alpha.pewresearch.org\/pewresearch-org\/short-reads\/2026\/04\/22\/key-facts-about-native-hawaiians-and-pacific-islanders-in-the-u-s\/","title":{"rendered":"Key facts about Native Hawaiians and Pacific Islanders in the U.S."},"content":{"rendered":"\n
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About this research<\/summary>\n

This Pew Research Center analysis summarizes key facts about Native Hawaiians and Pacific Islanders (NHPIs) living in the United States.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Why did we do this?<\/h4>\n\n\n\n

Pew Research Center does demographic studies, opinion polls and other research to better understand the views and experiences of people living in the U.S. This analysis builds on our previous work on race and ethnicity<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Native Hawaiians and Pacific Islanders are often grouped into a broader \u201cAsian American and Pacific Islander\u201d category. By focusing on NHPIs alone, this analysis highlights their unique experiences, characteristics and views.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Pew Research Center is a subsidiary of The Pew Charitable Trusts, its primary funder. This analysis was made possible with support from the Trusts and from the People & Voices Initiative<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Pew Research Center is grateful to a panel of expert advisers who reviewed this publication: Randall Kekoa Akee, Julie Johnson Kidd Professor of Indigenous Government and Development at Harvard University; Richard Calvin Chang, Director at the Native Hawaiian and Pacific Islander Data Policy Lab at the UCLA Center for Health Policy Research; and Ngoc Phan, Associate Professor of Political Science, History, Humanities and International Studies at Hawaii Pacific University.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Learn more about Pew Research Center<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

How did we do this?<\/h4>\n\n\n\n

For this analysis, we mainly used data from three sources:<\/p>\n\n\n\n