Poverty rate Asian families U.S. 2021

In 2021, 7.1 percent of Asian families in the United States were living below the poverty level. The poverty rate of Asian families has been increasing since 2019.
Poverty is the state of one who lacks a certain amount of material possessions or money. Absolute poverty or destitution is inability to afford basic human needs, which commonly includes clean and fresh water, nutrition, health care, education, clothing and shelter.

Percentage of Asian families who live below the poverty level in the United States from 2002 to 2021

Characteristic	Percentage of poor Asian families
2021	7.1%
2020	6.4%
2019	5.7%
2018	7.6%
2017	7.8%
2016	7.2%
2015	8%
2014	8.9%
2013	8.7%
2012	9.4%
2011	9.7%
2010	9.3%
2009	9.4%
2008	9.8%
2007	7.9%
2006	7.8%
2005	9%
2004	7.4%
2003	10.2%
2002	7.4%

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Release date

August 2022

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Region

United States

Survey time period

2002 to 2021

Supplementary notes

The Census Bureau defines a family as follows: "A family is a group of two people or more (one of whom is the householder) related by birth, marriage, or adoption and residing together; all such people (including related subfamily members) are considered as members of one family."
Asian alone - with and without children under 18 years.
Poverty is the state of one who lacks a certain amount of material possessions or money. Absolute poverty or destitution is inability to afford basic human needs, which commonly includes clean and fresh water, nutrition, health care, education, clothing and shelter.
Further information regarding the poverty threshold can be accessed here.

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