Poverty Among East Asian Women is Disproportionately High

Share of Women in Poverty, 2018-2022

Bar chart showing the share of women in poverty for different Asian subgroups from 2018-2022. Pacific Islander and East Asian women have higher poverty rate (10.5% and 10.4% respectively) than all women (9.7%).

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Note: Data are for individuals age 18 and over. The difference in poverty between East Asian women and all women is statistically significant at the 95% confidence level. Due to small sample size, this analysis does not report the poverty rate for Central Asian women.

Source: Budget Center analysis of US Census Bureau, American Community Survey public-use microdata downloaded from IPUMS USAEmbed Download image