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California and ASEAN: highlights
COMPOSITION OF EXPORTS
EXPORTS
$14.59 billion
$11.45 billion
6% ASEAN SHARE OF TOTAL STATE EXPORTS
TOP STATE GOODS EXPORTS TO ASEAN
GOODS EXPORTS TO ASEAN
GOODS AND SERVICES EXPORTS TO ASEAN
JOBS FROM EXPORTS
90,057
TOTAL JOBS SUPPORTED BY EXPORTS TO ASEAN
44,850
JOBS DIRECTLY
SUPPORTED BY EXPORTS
TO ASEAN
$3.14 billion
45,207
SERVICES EXPORTS TO ASEAN
JOBS INDIRECTLY
SUPPORTED BY EXPORTS
TO ASEAN
2,515,926
Burmese/Myanmar
17,978
Cambodian
102,317
Filipino
1,474,707
Hmong
91,224
Indonesian
39,506
9,870
ASEAN STUDENT CONTRIBUTION
TO STATE ECONOMY
$522 million
44%
CONTRIBUTION TO STATE ECONOMY BY ASEAN VISITORS
ASEAN PERCENTAGE
OF ASIAN POPULATION
Laotian
Malaysian
Thai
Vietnamese
$319 million
TRAVEL & TOURISM
TOTAL ASEAN AMERICANS IN CALIFORNIA
OF THE STATE
POPULATION
ASEAN STUDENTS
STUDENTS FROM ASEAN
2012 - 2013
ASEAN-AMERICANS
6.75%
$4,091,982,985
$1,409,407,330
$1,191,662,950
$928,091,669
$915,922,293
Computers & Electronic Products
Machinery
Food & Kindred Products
Transportation Equipment
Chemicals
69,303
5,595
67,707
647,589
NATURALIZATIONS
39,369
NATURALIZATIONS BY PERSONS FROM AN ASEAN COUNTRY
EXCHANGES & CONNECTIONS
In Orange County in 1992, Tony Lam won a seat on the Westminster City Council, becoming the first Vietnamese American to be
elected into political office in the United States.
ASEAN: Brunei Darussalam, Cambodia, Indonesia, Laos, Malaysia, Myanmar, the Philippines, Singapore, Thailand, and Vietnam.
SOURCE: Exports (2012), Jobs (2012), ASEAN Student Contribution (2012), and Travel & Tourism (2012): Estimated by the Trade Partnership (Washington, DC), US Bureau of Economic
Analysis. ASEAN Americans (2010): US Bureau of the Census. Naturalizations (2012): US Department of Homeland Security. Students from ASEAN (2012-2013 academic year):
Institute of International Education; NAFSA (Association of International Educators). Sister Cities: Sister Cities International and individual sister city partnerships and institutions.
Services data only available for Indonesia, Malaysia, the Philippines, and Thailand.
ASEAN Matters for America (AsiaMattersforAmerica.org/ASEAN) is an interactive resource for credible and nonpartisan information, graphics, analysis and news
on US-ASEAN relations at the national, state and local levels. ASEAN Matters for America is part of the Asia Matters for America initiative of the East-West Center.
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