Ethnic Chinese residing outside of China
Ethnic group
Overseas Chinese 60,000,000[ 1] [ 2] Thailand 9,392,792 (2012)[ 3] Indonesia 8,360,000 (2014)[ 4] Malaysia 6,884,800 (2022)[ 5] United States 5,457,033 (2023)[ 6] Singapore 2,675,521 (2020)[ 7] Myanmar 1,725,794 (2011)[ 8] Canada 1,715,770 (2021)[ 9] Australia 1,390,639 (2021)[ 10] Philippines 1,350,000 (2013)[ 11] South Korea 1,070,566 (2018)[ 12] Vietnam 749,466 (2019)[ 13] Japan 744,551 (2022)[ 14] United Kingdom 502,216 (2021)France 441,750 (2011)[ 8] Italy 330,495 (2020)[ 15] Brazil 252,250 (2011)[ 8] New Zealand 247,770 (2018)[ 16] Germany 217,000 (2023)[ 17] India 200,000 (2023)[ 8] Laos 176,490 (2011)[ 8] Chinese languages
Overseas Chinese people are people of Chinese origin who reside outside Greater China (mainland China , Hong Kong , Macau , and Taiwan ).[ 19] [ 8] 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.[ 20] [ 21] [ 22] [ 23] [ 24] New York metropolitan area contains the largest ethnic Chinese population outside of Asia , comprising an estimated 893,697 uniracial individuals as of 2017.[ 25]
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