China Population Report

• Population hits 1.30756 bln by 2005: Survey

The National Bureau of Statistics released Thursday the results of a 1 percent sample census conducted in 2005. At 0am Nov.1, 2005 China's population in 31 provinces, autonomous regions, municipalities directly under the central government and active army was 1.30628 billion (excluding those in Hong Kong, Macao and Taiwan). Prediction based on the results shows that China's population would hit 1.30756 billion by the end of 2005 (excluding those in Hong Kong, Macao and Taiwan). The survey shows that compared with the fifth census conducted at 0am Nov.1, 2000 China's population has increased by 40.45 million or 3.2 percent. The population grew at an annual rate of 8.09 million on average. The survey took the nation as a whole as the primary framework and provinces, regions and municipalities as the secondary framework, using stratified, multi-phased, cluster probability proportionate sampling as methodology. Final sample units were used as survey districts. It took 17.05 million people as samples, which accounted for 1.31 percent of China's total population. The survey shows that China had a mobile population of 147.35 million, of which cross-province population accounted for 47.79 million. Compared with the fifth census mobile population increased by 2.96 million while cross-province mobile population grew by 5.37 million. Urban population stood at 561.57 million, about 42.99 percent of the total population and those living in rural areas totaled 744.71 million representing 57.01 percent of the total population. The Han nationality made up 90.56 percent of total population and the remaining 9.44 percent were minority nationalities. China had 395.19 million households with the average size of 3.13 persons per household. In the population those with university education (junior college or above) were 67.64 million, those with high school education (including technical secondary school) were150.83 million. 467.35 million people had middle school education while 407.06 million had primary school education. (By People's Daily Online )

• POPULATION: Total Population 1.2591 billion (1999) about 22% of total population in the world.

Year	Total Population	Urban Population	Rural Population
1949	542 million
1955	615 million
1960	662 million
1965	725 million
1970	830 million
1975	924 million
1980	987 million
1985	1.058 billion
1990	1.143 billion
1992	1.171 billion
1995	1.2112 billion
1996	1.224 billion	359.5 million (29.4%)	864.39 million (70.6%)
1997	1.236 billion	369.89 million (29.9%)	866.37 million (70.1%)
1998	1.248 billion
1999	1.259 billion	388.92 million (30.9%)	870.17 million (69.1%)
2000	1.2953 billion	36%	64%
2005	1.30756 billion	561.57 million (42.99%)	744.71 million 57.01%

 

Year	Birth Rate (Per Thousand)	Death Rate (per thousand)	Natural Growth Rate (per thousand)
1970	33.43		25.83
1995	17.12	6.57
1996	16.98	6.56	10.42
1997	16.57	6.51	10.06
1998	16.30	6.50	9.53
1999	15.23	5.97	8.77
2000

The year of 1998 saw19.91 million births, 8.07 million deaths of the population, with a net growth population of 11.84 million (compared with 12.37 million in 1997);  More than 10% of total population is over 60 years old (1999 data).

China population is distributed unevenly with more in the east (more than 300 persons per square kilometer) and fewer in the west (about 40 persons per square kilometer. The national average density of population is 119 per square kilometer (1990 census). For basic urban population data, please visit "ChinaToday.com" Provinces and Cities page. The average size of household was 3.7 persons. The proportion of population aged at 0-14 was 26.4 percent, those aged 15-64 was 67.2 percent, and that of the people aged 65 and over was 6.4 percent. The Average Chinese Life-Span of the population was 70.8 years, that for male was 68.71, and female, 73.04. (Some of the above data are based on the report from China National Statistics Bureau, FOR YOUR REFERENCE ONLY).

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