Back الصينيون في الخارج Arabic Diàspora xinesa Catalan Huăng-káh CDO Auslandschinesen German Transmaraj ĉinoj Esperanto Diáspora china Spanish چینی‌های خارج از کشور Persian Diaspora chinoise French Fà-khièu HAK Չինական սփյուռք Armenian

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
 Indonesia10,880,000 (2023)
 Thailand9,392,792 (2012)
 Malaysia6,892,367 (2020)
 United States5,457,033 (2023)
 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)
 Vietnam749,466 (2019)[3]
 Japan744,551 (2022)[4]
 France800,000-1,200,000 (2021)[5][6]
 United Kingdom502,216 (2021)[7]
 Italy330,495 (2020)[8]
 Brazil252,250 (2011)[7]
 New Zealand247,770 (2018)[9]
 India200,000 (2016)[7]
 Germany155,955 (2023)[10]
 Laos176,490 (2011)[7]
 Cambodia343,855–700,000 (2013)[11]
Languages
Chinese languages
Religion
Overseas Chinese
Traditional Chinese海外華人
Simplified Chinese海外华人
Transcriptions
Standard Mandarin
Hanyu PinyinHǎiwài huárén
Alternative Chinese name
Traditional Chinese海外中國人
Simplified Chinese海外中国人
Transcriptions
Standard Mandarin
Hanyu PinyinHǎiwài Zhōngguórén

Overseas Chinese people or the Chinese diaspora are people of Chinese origin who reside outside Greater China (mainland China, Hong Kong, Macau, and Taiwan).[12] As of 2011, there were over 40.3 million overseas Chinese.[7] As of 2023, there were 10.5 million people living outside mainland China who were born in mainland China.[13] Overall, China has a low percent of its population living overseas.

Typical grocery store on 8th Avenue in one of the Brooklyn Chinatowns in New York City, New York. Multiple Chinatowns in Manhattan, Queens, and Brooklyn are thriving as traditionally urban enclaves, as large-scale Chinese immigration continues into New York.[14][15][16][17][18] The New York metropolitan area contains the largest ethnic Chinese population outside of Asia, comprising an estimated 893,697 uniracial individuals as of 2017.[19]
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  2. ^ Suryadinata, Leo (2017). "Blurring the Distinction between Huaqiao and Huaren: China's Changing Policy towards the Chinese Overseas". Southeast Asian Affairs. 2017 (1). Singapore: ISEAS–Yusof Ishak Institute: 109. JSTOR pdf/26492596.pdf?refreqid=excelsior%3Ac19f5fdd9d010b9985b476a20a2a8bdd. Archived from the original on 28 January 2021. Retrieved 20 February 2020.
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  5. ^ Paris clashes after French police kill Chinese man, BBC News, 28 March 2017.
  6. ^ "Immigrés par pays de naissance détaillé". Insee.fr (in French). 28 November 2014. Retrieved 1 September 2017.
  7. ^ a b c d e Poston, Dudley; Wong, Juyin (2016). "The Chinese diaspora: The current distribution of the overseas Chinese population". Chinese Journal of Sociology. 2 (3): 356–360. doi:10.1177/2057150X16655077. S2CID 157718431.
  8. ^ National Institute of Statistics (Italy): I cittadini non comunitari regolarmente soggiornanti Archived November 13, 2014, at the Wayback Machine. Retrieved 5 January 2015.17
  9. ^ "National ethnic population projections, by age and sex, 2018 (base) – 2043 Information on table". Archived from the original on 1 December 2021. Retrieved 31 October 2021.
  10. ^ "Ausländische Bevölkerung nach Geschlecht und ausgewählten Staatsangehörigkeiten". Federal Statistical Office of Germany. 2 May 2024. Retrieved 22 February 2025.
  11. ^ "Cambodia Socio-Economic Survey 2013" (PDF). National Institute of Statistics, Ministry of Planning, Government of Cambodia. July 2014. p. 12. Archived from the original (PDF) on 13 November 2016. Retrieved 24 November 2024.
  12. ^ Goodkind, Daniel. "The Chinese Diaspora: Historical Legacies and Contemporary Trends" (PDF). U.S. Census Bureau. Archived (PDF) from the original on 20 February 2020. Retrieved 31 August 2021.
  13. ^ "Living outside China has become more like living inside China". The Economist. ISSN 0013-0613. Retrieved 27 April 2025.
  14. ^ "Yearbook of Immigration Statistics: 2012 Supplemental Table 2". U.S. Department of Homeland Security. Archived from the original on 3 April 2013. Retrieved 2 May 2013.
  15. ^ "Yearbook of Immigration Statistics: 2011 Supplemental Table 2". U.S. Department of Homeland Security. Archived from the original on 8 August 2012. Retrieved 27 April 2013.
  16. ^ "Yearbook of Immigration Statistics: 2010 Supplemental Table 2". U.S. Department of Homeland Security. Archived from the original on 12 July 2012. Retrieved 27 April 2013.
  17. ^ John Marzulli (9 May 2011). "Malaysian man smuggled illegal Chinese immigrants into Brooklyn using Queen Mary 2: authorities". New York: NY Daily News.com. Archived from the original on 5 May 2015. Retrieved 27 April 2013.
  18. ^ "Chinese New Year 2012 in Flushing". QueensBuzz.com. 25 January 2012. Archived from the original on 30 March 2013. Retrieved 2 May 2013.
  19. ^ "Selected Population Profile in the United States 2017 American Community Survey 1-Year Estimates New York–Newark, NY-NJ-CT-PA CSA Chinese alone". United States Census Bureau. Archived from the original on 14 February 2020. Retrieved 27 January 2019.

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