Ethnic Chinese residing outside of China
Ethnic group
Overseas Chinese 60,000,000 [ 1] [ 2] [ 3] Thailand 9,392,792 (2012)[ 4] Malaysia 6,884,800 (2022)[ 5] United States 5,400,000 (2019)[ 6] Indonesia 2,832,510 (2010)[ 7] Singapore 2,675,521 (2020)[ 8] Myanmar 1,725,794 (2011)[ 9] Canada 1,715,770 (2021)[ 10] Australia 1,390,639 (2021)[ 11] Philippines 1,350,000 (2013)[ 12] South Korea 1,070,566 (2018)[ 13] Vietnam 749,466 (2019)[ 14] Japan 744,551 (2022)[ 15] United Kingdom 502,216 (2021)Russia 447,200 (2011)[ 9] France 441,750 (2011)[ 9] Italy 330,495 (2020)[ 16] Brazil 252,250 (2011)[ 9] New Zealand 247,770 (2018)[ 17] Germany 217,000 (2023)[ 18] India 200,000 (2023)[ 9] Laos 176,490 (2011)[ 9] Cambodia 147,020 (2011)[ 9] Spain 140,620 (2011)[ 9] Panama 135,960 (2011)[ 9] Netherlands 111,450 (2011)[ 9] South Africa 110,220–400,000 (2011)[ 9] [ 19] United Arab Emirates 109,500 (2011)[ 9] Saudi Arabia 14,619 (2022 census) [ 20] [ 21] Brunei 42,132 (2021)[ 22] Mauritius 26,000–39,000 Reunion 25,000 (2000)Mexico 24,489 (2019)Papua New Guinea 20,000 (2008)[ 23] Ireland 19,447 (2016)Bangladesh 7,500 Timor Leste 4,000-20,000 (2021)Chinese people
Overseas Chinese people are those of Chinese birth or ethnicity who reside outside mainland China , Taiwan , Hong Kong and Macau .[ 25] As of 2011, there were over 40.3 million overseas Chinese.[ 9] Overall, China has a low percent of population living overseas .
Typical grocery store on 8th Avenue in one of the Brooklyn Chinatowns in New York City , New York, US. Multiple Chinatowns in Manhattan , Queens , and Brooklyn are thriving as traditionally urban enclaves , as large-scale Chinese immigration continues into New York.[ 26] [ 27] [ 28] [ 29] [ 30] The New York metropolitan area contains the largest ethnic Chinese population outside of Asia , comprising an estimated 893,697 uniracial individuals as of 2017.[ 31]
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