The Nation : Asian Population Soars

Bolstered by waves of Indochinese war refugees, Asians are the fastest-growing segment of America’s population and could total nearly 10 million by the year 2000, according to a study released in Washington by the independent Population Reference Bureau. By the turn of the century, Asian-Americans “will comprise almost 4% of the U.S. population, up from 1.5% in 1980,” the study said. “Between 1970 and 1980, a decade in which the total U.S. population increased by only 11%, the Asian-American population soared by 141%,” according to the report based on statistics collected by the Census Bureau.