Overseas Chinese people are those of Chinese birth or ethnicity who reside outside mainland China, Taiwan, Hong Kong and Macau. As of 2011, there were over 40.3 million overseas Chinese. Overall China has low precent of population living overseas.
Main sources of Chinese migration from the 19th century to 1949.
Chinese women and children in Brunei, c. 1945.
1958 old photograph of Indonesian-Chinese of Gu (古) surname, first until third generations
1967 photo of Indonesian-Chinese family from Hubei ancestry, the second and third generations.
The Chinese people, or simply Chinese, are people or ethnic groups identified with China, usually through ethnicity, nationality, citizenship, or other affiliation.
Portion of a mural in Beijing depicting the 56 recognized ethnic groups of China
The Amis people are an indigenous Taiwanese ethnic group.
Tibetans in Qinghai
Hui people in Xinjiang