A new Pew Research Center analysis of Asian Americans’ charitable giving found that 64 percent of those surveyed had given to a U.S. charity in the past year, 20 percent had given to a charity in their Asian country of origin, and 27 percent had sent money to someone living there, known as remittances.
The multilingual, nationally representative survey of 7,006 Asian American adults was conducted July 5, 2022, through Jan. 27, 2023, Pew said in its news release Thursday.
Among the findings: “Regardless of whether Asian adults are immigrants or born in the U.S., most have given to a U.S. charity. More than 60 percent of each group say they have done so. However, immigrants are more likely than U.S.-born Asian adults to say they have given to a charity in their Asian country of origin (23 percent vs. 11 percent),” Pew said.
Further: “In 2021, Asian Americans’ places of origin collectively received about $63 billion in remittances from the U.S. Among the biggest recipients were the six most common origin countries for Asian Americans — India, the Philippines, China, Vietnam, South Korea and Japan — which received about $55 billion of these remittances, according to the Center’s analysis of World Bank data.”
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