Asian Americans and Pacific Islanders are extremely underrepresented in elected office across the nation, according to a new report from the Reflective Democracy Campaign.

While AAPI people make up about 6% of the U.S. population, they represented a meager 0.9% of federal, state and local elected leaders in 2020, according to the report.

Looking at the current makeup of Congress, only two of the 100 senators are Asian American or Pacific Islander Mazie Hirono (D-Hawaii) and Tammy Duckworth (D-Ill.) and 15 out of the 435 representatives in the House are AAPI. Thats only 3.2% of Congress.

With Januarys Senate departure of Kamala Harris, who now is the nations first Asian American vice president, there are no Black women senators.

Our nation is made stronger when its government looks more like the people it represents, Duckworth said in a news release, adding that the report helps demonstrate the woeful lack of AAPI representation in government.

Ill continue working to make sure that everyone in our country has a seat at the table, the senator added.

Even though the AAPI community is one of the fastest growing demographic groups in the U.S., it is the least represented in elected office, according to the report. Asian Americans are underrepresented among political leaders by a factor of -85% relative to their population. By comparison, white Americans are overrepresented in elected office by a factor of +46%.