Top 20 Largest Overseas Vietnamese Communities
Editor’s Note: To see an analysis of the Global Vietnamese Diaspora along with an online bibliography (links to research articles) for countries with significant populations of Vietnamese, click here.
It is estimated that there are about 3.75 million Viet Kieu (Vietnamese living abroad) in more than 100 countries and territories. However, the attempt to report sizable populations of Vietnamese around the globe is subjective and involves errors. Notwithstanding, such attempt is to update reports on overseas Vietnamese communities that can be used by community groups and other scholars.
REFERENCES
- See “The Vietnamese Population in the United States: 2010″ from the Census Bureau.
- See CIA’s World Factbook: Cambodia.
- This estimated number is based on a survey conducted by Vietnam’s Ministry of Education and Training, and has been cited by government officials.
- According to UNHCR, there are some 260,000 ethnic Chinese refugees from (or born in) Vietnam, while the rest are ethnic Vietnamese.
- This estimated number is based on 80,000 Vietnamese workers and another 110,000 Vietnamese spouses in Taiwan.
- See Australia’s Department of Foreign Affairs and Trade.
- See Canada’s 2006 Census.
- See Germany’s Federal Ministry for Economic Cooperation and Development.
- This estimated number is based on Joshua Project, which seems to be lined with previous official numbers.
- See South Korea’s Immigration department.
- This estimated number is based on the number of workers in Malaysia, according to Vietnam’s Overseas Labor Department.
- This estimated number is based on both legal and illegal Vietnamese in Great Britain by a report from the BBC.
- This estimated number is based on an estimate that Vietnamese in Laos make up 1 percent of the total population. See CIA’s World Factbook: Laos.
- See a research paper by Jiri Dobrylovsky and Petr Adamek.
- See a case study on Vietnamese migration to Japan.
- This estimated number is based on Joshua Project, which seems to be lined with previous official numbers. While the number of illegal Vietnamese immigrants are thought to be high in Russia, there is no creditable source for that estimate.
- This estimated number is based on Centro Studi Politic Internazionale’s Center for International Relations.
- See Netherlands’ Central Bureau.
- This estimated number is based on Norway’s Embassy in Vietnam.
- This estimated number is based on a forthcoming research article by David Koh from Institute of Southeast Asian Studies.
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The estimate for China raises the problem of identity: ethnicity, nationality, and even national origin. The estimate is of ethnic Chinese who originated from Vietnam. What about the ethnic Kinh (Chinese romanization: Gin/Jing) who emigrated from 15th-Century Dai Viet (as Vietnam was named at that time)? Do we include them? Do we include migrant populations, e.g. Vietnamese nationals with student visas?
Great question.
As noted in the blog, the estimate is subjective. I include the number of ethnic Chinese refugees from Vietnam, whereas the Vietnamese government does not in their estimate of overseas Vietnamese in China. My reason for this inclusion is that there are, of course, huge number of ethnic Chinese refugees from Vietnam in the US. If someone wanted to study the comparative experience of ethnic Chinese refugees from Vietnam, they can and should. A scholar, Jonathan Lee, at San Fransico State University (who is an ethnic Chinese refugee from Vietnam) is doing some work in this area.
Regarding the ethnic Kinh who migrated from 15th century Dai Viet, this is something that a historian has to decide. I suppose if someone who wanted to study earlier waves of Vietnamese refugees within Southeast Asia, they can look at this period to compare earlier Vietnamese emigrants to Thailand and Cambodia.
Regarding Vietnamese international students, for me, the answer would be yes, especially if they make up a large number of overseas Vietnamese in a particular country. For example, in Singapore, of the estimate 12,000 Vietnamese, 8 thousands are students. Thus, this warrants some attention in understaning this group.
Long Le
I believe that Russian Vietnamese Community is much larger by now! We can see Vietnamese more often!
I also agree that the Russian Vietnamese community is larger, but it is difficult to ascertain the number of legal and illegal Vietnamese in Russia. I have not come across a creditable source for the estimate of Vietnamese illegal immigrants. If you have, please send me the source.
It is much growth with Vietnamese communities. Overall world population is also growing very fast, I think this may have consequences in the future
Great.
I wonder what is the best way to use this information? How would it help community groups?
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Thanks for an interesting top of communities) needed to be learned in more detail about Russia!
This just shows that some people would rather be in other countries rather than live in their own.
I would imagine that the Chinese numbers would be substantially greater in 2011 with the economic growth that China is experiencing would be a strong attraction for immigrants.
I believe that Russian Vietnamese Community is much larger by now. Good post. Congratulations.
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Western communities (European and US) are also growing in Asian countries. Each year you can see more and more expats living in places like Vietnam, China, Philippines etc.
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I basically believe that the reason behind any careless acts is because people have unfulfilled needs and those who has power to help do not do anything significant. So, instead of thinking whether or not the deportation is classified as a human-right violation, why don’t we go to the root of the problem? This means government should have periodically mapped the country’s demography as well as the geography at the first place, then figure out what solution is going to be the best. Even when immigration is the only way, by doing that, they can develop a really good and precise plan before they actually execute the program. So, there’s no need for people to suffer either from deportation or neglect, because it is PEOPLE’s life at stake.
Very interesting data, thank you. It makes me wonder too though, because a lot of the expatriate Vietnamese will end up marrying/having babies with people of other nationalities. I wonder how people will perceive “race” in about 20 years time, because we are becoming more and more mixed, which I think is great by the way.
I thought the Czech Republic would come before the UK. From my experience their seems to be far more vietnamese living in Czech Republic than the UK.
I think Czech Republic would have more Vietnamese than the United Kingdon and South Korea’s Vietnamese population has probably increased through the increasing number of south Korean men looking for South-East Asian Brides.
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Wow! I am surprised that the Vietnam community is as large as it is in the United States. I would have expected a place like Cambodia to be a lot larger. Thanks for sharing this graphic…very interesting!
I think chinese community has the competitor now, the vietnam community now spread out to many countries…
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