What is the fastest growing minority group in the nation?

• A. Asians and Pacific Islanders
• B. African Americans
• C. Hispanics
• D. Native Americans

Answer: (A)

Growth rate in this context is about how quickly a group’s population increases over time, measured as a percentage of its current size. A smaller group can rise very fast in percentage terms even if the total number added is not huge, because they start from a smaller base.

Asians and Pacific Islanders have shown the fastest percentage growth in recent decades. That rapid increase has been driven largely by continued immigration from Asian countries and Pacific Island nations, which expands the group faster than others despite variations in birth rates within subgroups.

By comparison, Hispanics have grown a lot in absolute numbers and remain the largest minority population, but the rate of growth by percentage is not as high as that of Asians and Pacific Islanders. African Americans and Native Americans have grown more slowly in percentage terms due to a variety of demographic factors.