Contemporary li surname's population has nearly 2 million, ranked one hundred and third, accounts for about 0.16% of the population.In the national distribution mainly concentrates in guangdong and guangxi provinces, about 46% of the li surname population, second distributed in jiangxi, sichuan, hunan, anhui, hainan, guizhou, chongqing, hubei, these eight provinces and cities and concentration of 44%.Lived in guangdong for Lebanon is 29% of the total population, for li is the first big province.The country formed a YueGui as the center to the distribution form.Li has a wide distribution name, but not balanced.

Li surname in YueGui provinces is one of the more common surname.In most of guangdong, jiangxi, xiang-gui Joan, most central northwest sichuan, chongqing, guizhou, yunnan, eastern, southern hubei, southern gansu, qinghai, fujian southeast west, li surname generally accounts for more than 0.32% in the proportion of the local population, central region can reach more than 1.5%, that in some parts of the area covered by about 14.7% of the total area of the country, for about 66% of the region's name is a crowd.In the east of guangdong province in central, northeast jiangxi, fujian, zhejiang west end, most of south anhui, hubei, cloud each most, but so do dungans southern, eastern qinghai, xinjiang, northwest's name is generally accounted for the proportion of the population in a 0.16% to 0.32%, its coverage area is about 15% of the total area of the country, for about 21% of the region's name is a crowd.