Diversity Facts

Asian-American Facts

• There are approximately 15 million people of Asian heritage in the U.S.
• Forty-nine percent of single-race Asians, who are ages 25 or older, have a bachelor's degree or higher level of education.
• Chinese is the second-most-widely spoken non-English language in the U.S.

Elderly American Facts

• There are approximately 37.3 million people 65 and older in the United States on July 1, 2006.
• The median income of households with householders 65 and older is $27,798.
• 69,000 people 65 and older were enrolled in high school or college in October 2005.
• There were 3.9 million people 65 and older living in California on July 1, 2006, the highest total of any state. Florida, with 3 million, was the runner up.

Gay, Lesbian, Bisexual, Transsexual and Queer Facts

• Forty-four percent of male and female respondents reported that they "came out" between the ages of 18 and 24.
• Education and healthcare were the two professions with the largest concentration of GLBTQs.
• Sixty-six percent of male respondents and sixty-one percent of female respondents have a college degree.
• Sixty-one percent of male respondents and 77 percent of female respondents view the right to legal adoption as extremely important.

Hispanic-American Facts

• As of July 1, 2006, the estimated Hispanic population of the U.S. was 44 million, making people of Hispanic origin the nation's largest ethnic or race minority. Hispanics constituted 15 percent of the nation's total population. This estimate does not include the 4 million residents of Puerto Rico.
• The U.S. Hispanic population was ranked third worldwide, as of 2005. Only Mexico (106 million) and Colombia (43 million) had larger Hispanic populations than the U.S. (43 million). Spain had a population of 40 million.
• Thirty-three million U.S. household residents, ages five and older, speak Spanish at home.
• Three million Hispanics, ages 18 and older, had at least a bachelor's degree in 2006, up from 1.5 million a decade earlier.
• There are 1 million Hispanic veterans in the U.S. armed forces.

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