What is the population of overseas Chinese?

The overseas Chinese population is about 60 million. According to statistics, there are about 6 million non-Han overseas Chinese, accounting for 8.4% of the total overseas Chinese. Overseas Chinese, also known as Chinese, refer to China people who live abroad and are of China descent. In most cases, this term refers to China people without China nationality, including Chinese mainland and Taiwan Province provinces, but sometimes overseas Chinese are also included.

Overseas Chinese are mainly Chinese who immigrated from China in modern times and their descendants. Including immigrants and their descendants in different periods from Ming and Qing Dynasties to People's Republic of China (PRC), mainly the Han nationality, but also some ethnic minorities in China such as Manchu. Hong Kong and Macao do not recognize dual nationality in principle, but in fact dual nationality exists.

The number of overseas Chinese

20 12 A research report entitled "Annual Report on the Development of Overseas Chinese Enterprises in China 20 10-20 1 1" released on August 23rd pointed out that in the past two decades, the new overseas immigrants from China showed an accelerated trend, which not only caused the global, especially the United States, Canada, Australia, Europe and Africa.

The report shows that the number of Chinese in North America surged from more than 2 million in 1990 to 5.5 million in 20 10. Europe has soared from hundreds of thousands to more than two million, and Africa has soared from tens of thousands to nearly one million. From 2000 to 20 10, the growth was faster. For example, the number of Chinese in Spain soared from 28,000 to 1.5 million, and the number of Chinese in the United States increased from more than 3 million to nearly 4 million. 20 1 1 The number of American investment immigrants has increased by 10 times compared with 2007.