Overseas Chinese

Overseas Chinese
  • 海外華人，海外华人
  • 海外中國人，海外中国人
Total population
60,000,000[1][2]
10,500,000 (born in mainland China, 2023)
Regions with significant populations
Thailand9,392,792 (2012)[3]
Malaysia7,527,793 (2020)[4]
United States5,457,033 (2023)[5]
Indonesia2,832,510 (2010)[6]
Singapore2,675,521 (2020)[7]
Myanmar1,725,794 (2011)[8]
Canada1,715,770 (2021)[9]
Australia1,390,637 (2021)[10]
Philippines1,350,000 (2013)[11]
South Korea1,070,566 (2018)[12]
Japan1,000,000 (2024)[13]
Languages
Chinese, English language
Religion

Overseas Chinese people or the Chinese diaspora are a diaspora people of Chinese origin who reside outside Greater China (mainland China, Hong Kong, Macau, and Taiwan).[15] As of 2011, there were over 40.3 million overseas Chinese.[8] As of 2023, there were 10.5 million people living outside mainland China who were born in mainland China.[16] Overall, China has a low percent of its population living overseas.

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