Ethnologue report for China: "People's Republic of China. Zhonghua Renmin Gongheguo.

National or official language: Mandarin Chinese. 1,262,358,000 (1998 UN).

55 official minority nationalities total 91,200,314 or 6.5% of the population (1990).

Han Chinese 1,033,057,000 or 93.5% (J. Matisoff).
Also includes Central Khmer 1,000,
Portuguese 2,000,
Shan, Tai Dam 10,000,
Tai Don 10,000.

Information mainly from J. Dreyer 1976; S. Wurm et al. 1987; J-O Svantesson 1989, 1995; J. Janhumen 1989; J. Matisoff et al. 1996; J. Evans 1999.

Secular, Chinese traditional religion, Buddhism, Taoism, Christian, Muslim, traditional religion.

Blind population 2,000,000.
Deaf population 3,000,000 (1986 Gallaudet University).
Deaf institutions: 7. Data accuracy estimate: B.
The number of languages listed for China is 202. Of those, 201 are living languages and 1 is extinct.
Diversity index 0.48."