What percentage of China speak Hokkien/Taiwanese?

Question

The top 5 languages spoken in china are:

Mandarin Cantonese Hokkien Shanghainese Hakka

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

Lily White · Accepted Answer · 2021-08-26 06:32:33Z

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.

Wilde · Accepted Answer · 2021-08-26 09:23:16Z

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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