in 2006, of the 1,266,264 legal immigrants to the united states, 58,072 were from india. between 2000 and 2006, 421,006 indian immigrants were admitted to the u.s., up from 352,278 during the 1990–1999 period. according to the 2000 u.s. census, the overall growth rate for indians from 1990 to 2000 was 105.87 percent. the average growth rate for the u.s. was 7.6 percent. indians comprise 16.4 percent of the asian-american community. in 2000, the indian-born population in the u.s. was 1.007 million. according to the u.s. census bureau, between 1990 and 2000, the indian population in the u.s. grew 130% – 10 times the national average of 13%. indian americans are the third largest asian american ethnic group, following chinese americans and filipino americans.