Contemporary wang's population has nearly 4.3 million, 56 columns in the country, accounts for about 0.34% of the population.Since the Ming dynasty wang's population increased from 620000 to 4.56 million, 600 years grew by more than seven times, wang population growth rate is lower than the population growth in the country.Wang since song dynasty 1000 years the growth rate of population is a ^ shape.

In the national distribution mainly concentrated in anhui and hubei provinces, about 42% of the wang population.Secondly distributed in zhejiang, sichuan, jiangsu, jiangxi, yunnan, hunan, the six provinces and concentrated 29% of the population of wang.Anhui province for the first big province, wang accounts for about 30% of wang population.The formation of anhui centered along the Yangtze river around wang distribution characteristics of gradually diminishing.During 600, wang degree and direction of migration and reflecting period there is a big difference, mainly from the southeast to the central plains, north China a property is very strong, especially prominent is the migration to the west of sichuan.

Wang in the crowd distribution frequency diagram shows that most suhu of anhui and zhejiang, hubei, henan, southeast of the hunan-kiangsi north fujian, each area, most of guizhou, yunnan, east, west of guangxi, western and southern shaanxi, southern gansu, heilongjiang east, wang accounted for the proportion of the population is in commonly 0.39%, central region more than 1.5%, the area coverage area accounts for 19.8% of the total land area, for about 65% of wang.In the hunan-kiangsi in southern fujian, guangdong area jean, most, most of southeast of guizhou, yunnan, guangxi, ningxia, central eastern part of qinghai, but so do dungans most of most of lu yu, alternating, heilongjiang, western and eastern Inner Mongolia, xinjiang, northwest wang of the local population, generally between 0.13% - 0.39%, it accounts for about 40% of the area on the coverage area, for about 31.2% of wang.