<p>Exact percentage is hard to determine since there can be</p>
<ul>
<li>People grown up in XX Province not knowing how to speak the dialect (as is my case)</li>
<li>People who was born in YY Province and, having worked in ZZ province for decades, learns how to speak the dialect there.</li>
</ul>
<p>So...</p>
<ul>
<li><p>Mandarin: Originated from Beijing and is taught everywhere, as everyone is required to go through at least 9 years of education, nearly everyone can speak it except some old people.</p>
</li>
<li><p>Cantonese: Spoken in Guangdong Province, Hong Kong and Macau mainly, at most 85 million people speak it if you count all sub-dialects</p>
</li>
<li><p>Hokkien: Spoken in Fujian Province, Taiwan, Philippines, and other S Asian countries, 20 million people within China speak it, while 30 million outside do.</p>
</li>
<li><p>Hakka: Spoken in Guangdong mainly and has a speaker of around 50 million</p>
</li>
<li><p>Shanghainese: is a variety of the Wu dialect, has ~14 million speakers.</p>
</li>
</ul>
<p>Numbers are grabbed from their respective Wikipedia pages.</p>

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2021-08-26T06:32:33.213Z
2021-08-26T06:32:33.213Z
Lily White
<p>source：https://zh.wikipedia.org/wiki/%E9%97%BD%E5%8D%97%E8%AF%AD</p>
<p>于2017年，全球以闽南语（包括海南话等）为母语的人数约为7000万人，其中中国大陆的闽南语人口（包括海南话）则是2710万人（2013）[1]。全球闽南语以使用者人口排名并非定值而会浮动，估计位居世界第20~30名之间。</p>
<p>2710万/14亿=1.94%</p>
<p>About 2% of people in China speak Hokkien</p>

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2021-08-26T09:23:16.367Z
2021-08-26T09:23:16.367Z
Wilde
<p>The top 5 languages spoken in china are:</p>
<p>Mandarin
Cantonese
Hokkien
Shanghainese
Hakka</p>
<p>But I can't find what percentage of China speak Hokkien</p>

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What percentage of China speak Hokkien/Taiwanese?
# What percentage of China speak Hokkien/Taiwanese?

(Asked by: username_0 on 2021-08-26)

The top 5 languages spoken in china are:

Mandarin
Cantonese
Hokkien
Shanghainese
Hakka

But I can't find what percentage of China speak Hokkien

**Tags:** hokkien


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## 2 answers

### Answer by username_1 on 2021-08-26. Score: 2

Exact percentage is hard to determine since there can be

* People grown up in XX Province not knowing how to speak the dialect (as is my case)
* People who was born in YY Province and, having worked in ZZ province for decades, learns how to speak the dialect there.

So...

* Mandarin: Originated from Beijing and is taught everywhere, as everyone is required to go through at least 9 years of education, nearly everyone can speak it except some old people.
* Cantonese: Spoken in Guangdong Province, Hong Kong and Macau mainly, at most 85 million people speak it if you count all sub-dialects
* Hokkien: Spoken in Fujian Province, Taiwan, Philippines, and other S Asian countries, 20 million people within China speak it, while 30 million outside do.
* Hakka: Spoken in Guangdong mainly and has a speaker of around 50 million
* Shanghainese: is a variety of the Wu dialect, has ~14 million speakers.

Numbers are grabbed from their respective Wikipedia pages.


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### Answer by username_2 on 2021-08-26. Score: 2

source：https://zh.wikipedia.org/wiki/%E9%97%BD%E5%8D%97%E8%AF%AD

于2017年，全球以闽南语（包括海南话等）为母语的人数约为7000万人，其中中国大陆的闽南语人口（包括海南话）则是2710万人（2013）[1]。全球闽南语以使用者人口排名并非定值而会浮动，估计位居世界第20~30名之间。

2710万/14亿=1.94%

About 2% of people in China speak Hokkien


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