Dong was more than 7.36 million, the total population of the han population accounts for about 0.61%, is the most popular Chinese surnames ranking 29th today.Today is widely distributed dong, dong in hebei, henan, shandong, liaoning, zhejiang, yunnan, Shanxi Province is the most concentrated.Hebei, henan, and shanxi provinces, accounting for dong 31% of the population, yunnan, shandong, liaoning, zhejiang, sichuan, hubei six provinces and accounted for 38%.Among them, live the dong ji 11% of the population, accounting for 1.2% of the total population in hebei, for the first big province dong today.In the formation of the north China, yunnan two large pieces of dong high density areas.Most of hebei, shanxi, shandong, northern, southern yunnan and other regions in the northeast of China, is a concentrated area of dong, in 14.8% of the total area, to meet the 2.974 million ethnic wang, accounts for about 40.4% of dong population.In other parts of the north of east of qinghai lake, the Yangtze river, QianXi, hunan-kiangsi in northern fujian, zhejiang area and northwest xinjiang region, is also the area where the dong is common, in 42.4% of the total area, to meet the 3.954 million ethnic wang, accounts for about 53.7% of dong population.

Dong population density per unit area of the highest in north China, and the northeast yunnan, more than 1.6 people per square kilometer.Among them, it is, jin ji SEC central, central and southern liaodong peninsula, shandong east, heilongjiang, more than 2.4 people per square kilometer.

Dong proportion is not balanced in the crowd.In western yunnan, shanxi, hebei, heilongjiang qiqihar district, dong, accounted for over 1.2% of the population than in the central district is above 2.4%;In other parts of east of qinghai lake, north of the Yangtze river, northeast of jiangxi and zhejiang and other regions, accounting for about 0.4 to 1.2%;Other areas accounted for less than 0.4%.

600 years since the Ming dynasty, wang population migration direction and reflecting period has great difference, mainly has the eastern to the central China, north China strong property, migrating to the west is also evident at the same time.In nearly 600 years, the country's population has increased by 13 times;Compared with dong population soared from 420000 to 7.36 million, 17 times the growth, is far higher than the population growth in the country.Visible, from song dynasty to now 1000 dong was "V" shape inversion of population growth.