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The number shown is the average annual growth rate for the period. Population is based on the de facto definition of population, which counts all residents regardless of legal status or citizenship—except for refugees not permanently settled in the country of asylum, who are generally considered part of the population of the country of origin ...
Among airports in China, Xiamen ranked the top 17th by airport and the top 14th by city in 2024. It handled 27.906 million passengers in 2024, up 15.77% year-on-year. Total cargo and mail traffic in 2023 reached 314,405.1 tons, and air traffic exceeded 179,518, year-on-year growth of 20.0% and 79.8%, respectively. [75]
By one estimate, in 2024 China's population stood at about 1.408 billion, down from the 1.412 billion recorded in the 2020 census. [11] According to the 2020 census, 91.11% of the population was Han Chinese, and 8.89% were minorities. China's population growth rate is −0.15%, ranking 159th in the world.
PRC-controlled administrative divisions by population (2013). Average Annual Population Growth Rate in each Chinese province (exc. Taiwan), municipality, and autonomous region between 2010 and 2020 according to the Chinese National Bureau of Statistics. This is a list of Chinese administrative divisions in order of their total resident populations.
This file should next be updated when the 2021 Chinese population estimates are released. The timeframe of this map will then be switched from "2010 - 2020" to "2020 - 2021". Average Annual Growth Rates are used instead of the total percentage growth rate since the last census for consistency and to prevent a new legend from being used every ...
The Population of Modern China (1992) excerpt; also another excerpt; Pritchard, Earl H. “Thoughts on the Historical Development of the Population of China.” Journal of Asian Studies 23#1 (1963), pp. 3–20 online, discussion of technical issues; Schinz, Alfred. The Magic Square: Cities in Ancient China(Fellbach: Edition Axel Menges, 1996).
Shanghai is China's most populous urban area, [8] [9] while Chongqing is its largest city proper, the only city in China with the largest permanent population of over 30 million. [ 10 ] As of 2020, there were 113 Chinese cities with over 1 million people in urban areas.
[12] [13] In 2016, China set a target of increasing its population to about 1.42 billion by 2020, from 1.34 billion in 2010. [14] After the relaxation of the one-child policy, 17.9 million babies were born in 2016, an increase of 1.3 million over the previous year, but only half of what was expected. [15]