13. In 2007, the median
income of households
headed by an Indian
American ~$83,000,
….Compared with
$55,000 for Whites
14. 69% of Indian
Americans age
25+ have four-year
college degrees
….which dwarfs
the rates of 30%
of Whites
15. 73% of the Scripps
National Spelling
Bee winners since
1999 have been of
Indian descent
16. More than 5,000
Indian Americans
today serve as
faculty members
in institutions of
higher education
17. Almost 40% of all
Indians in the United
States have a
master’s, doctorate
or other professional
degree
….5X the national
average.
18. The first "East Indian"
landed in the United
States in 1635 in
Jamestown, Virginia
19. Indian American
population has a
growth rate of 70%
….one of the
fastest growing
ethnic groups in
the United States.
20. Indian Americans
comprise 16.4
percent of the Asian-
American community
….the third largest
Asian American
ethnic group
21. Indian immigrants
have founded more
engineering and
technology companies
from 1995 to 2005
than immigrants from
the UK, China, Taiwan
and Japan combined
22. 87% of Indian
Americans 18
years old or older
were born outside
the US
24. Total bilateral
trade in goods
between the US
and India touched
USD 63.7 billion in
2013
25. A recent study of 68
Indian companies which
have invested in the US
has found that these
companies invested
nearly US $ 17 billion in
the US
....spending over US $ 340
million in R&D activities
26. Total goods trade
between US and India
has grown substantially
– over 400 percent from
$18.1 billion in 2003 to
$64.2 billion in 2013
27. The U.S. stock FDI
in India has
increased – over
600 percent since
2003 – from $4.8
billion in to $28.4
billion in 2012.
28. Indian investment
in the U.S. has
experienced 1400
percent growth,
from $350 million
in 2012 to $5.2
billion in 2012.
29. New York City itself
contains by far the
highest Indian American
population of any
individual city in North
America, at
approximately 207,414.
30. Indian American
women having the
highest percentage
of college degrees
among women of all
ethnicities
31. Among Indian Americans,
72.3% participate in the
U.S. work force
….of which 57.7% are
employed in managerial
and professional
specialties
32. 66.3% of Indian
Americans are
employed in select
professional and
managerial specialties
…compared with the
national average of
35.9%
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39. US President Harry
Truman signed into law
the Luce-Celler Act of
1946, giving to Indian
Americans the right to
immigrate and naturalize
40. Indian Americans were
barred from becoming
citizens for many years,
until passage of a 1952
law that lifted prior
restrictions
41. Top Cities for Indian
Americans
1) New York
2) Chicago
3) Washington DC
4) Los Angeles
5) San Francisco