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
10,500,000 (born in mainland China, 2023)
Regions with significant populations
Thailand9,392,792 (2012)
Malaysia7,527,793 (2020)
United States5,457,033 (2023)
Indonesia3,280,000 (2020)
Singapore2,675,521 (2020)
Myanmar1,725,794 (2011)
Canada1,715,770 (2021)
Australia1,390,637 (2021)
Philippines1,350,000 (2013)
South Korea1,070,566 (2018)
Japan1,000,000 (2024)
France800,000
United Kingdom500,000
Languages
Standard Chinese, Cantonese, other Varieties of Chinese, English language, other languages of countries of residence
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). As of 2011, there were over 40.3 million overseas Chinese. As of 2023, there were 10.5 million people living outside mainland China who were born in mainland China, corresponding to 0.7 percent of China's population. Overall, China has a low percent of its population living overseas.