NEW YORK - New Census 2000 results show that the Korean American community grew from 798,849 to 1.1 million nationally, a growth rate of 35 percent over the past decade.

Meanwhile, Chinese and Filipino Americans remain the first and second largest Asian subgroups in the United States, respectively.

However, unparalleled growth in the Indian and Vietnamese American communities between 1990 and 2000 has added to the increasing diversity of the Asian American communities of the U.S.

The Japanese American population decreased between 1990 and 2000 by almost 51,000 people, and fell from being the third largest Asian group in 1990 down to sixth place in the 2000 census count.

This analysis, conducted by the Asian American Federation Census Information Center (Federation CIC) of New York, is based upon a Census 2000 profile, released May 15, by the Commerce Department’s Census Bureau.

While Chinese Americans still constitute the largest Asian subgroup in the U.S. - with the population growing 48 percent from 1.6 million in 1990 to nearly 2.5 million - and Filipino Americans second with close to 1.9 million in 2000, the growth rate in the Indian and Vietnamese American communities between 1990 and 2000 is substantially greater-at 106 percent and 83 percent respectively.

The Indian American community grew from 815,447 in 1990 to 1,678,765 in 2000, while Vietnamese Americans went from 614,547 in 1990 to 1,122,528 in 2000.

The Japanese American community is the only major Asian subgroup that showed a decline in population, now numbering 796,700, down 6 percent from 847,562 in 1990.

"Other Asians," which includes other Asian subgroups such as Bangladesh, Cambodian, Hmong, Laotian, Pakistani and Thai, increased by 65 percent over the past 10 years.

The data for these specific groups will be available with the next round of Census releases, including data from the Census Short Form, which is scheduled between June and September 2001.

The Census Bureau will release similar profiles with the six Asian subgroups-which correspond to the groups that had a specific checkbox on the Census 2000 survey form-for each state, county and city in the U.S. over the next month.