• AAPI is the largest ethnic medical organization in the United States and represents the interests of more than 61,000 physicians and over 17,500 medical students/residents of Indian heritage in the country. Thus, there are over 7,500 in the NYC combined MSRF and practicing physicians Metro Area.
• Indian Americans made up 5 percent of the nearly 1 million U.S. physicians
• 10%-12% of medical students entering US schools are of Indian Origin
• Research and Medical services drive New York’s major healthcare industry which has the most post-graduate life sciences degrees awarded annually in the United States and 40,000 licensed physicians.
• New York receives the second-highest amount of annual funding from the National Institutes of Health among all U.S. cities
• According to the American Community Survey of the U.S. Census Bureau, the Asian Indian population in the United States grew from almost 1,679,000 in 2000 to 2,570,000 in 2007: a growth rate of 53%, the highest for any Asian American community, and among the fastest-growing ethnic groups in the United States.
• Almost 40% of all Indians in the United States have a master’s, doctorate or other professional degrees, which is five times the national average
• In 2002, there were over 223,000 Asian Indian owned firms in the U.S., employing more than 610,000 workers, and generating more than $88 billion in revenue Currently the Indian diaspora in the US is largely concentrated in metropolitan areas such as New York, where the U.S. Census estimated 575,000 individuals in 2007