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The Population of Modern China (1992). pp. 51–57. online; Banister, Judith. "An analysis of recent data on the population of China." Population and Development review (1984) 10#2: 241-271 online. Broadberry, Stephen, Hanhui Guan, and David Daokui Li. "China, Europe, and the great divergence: a study in historical national accounting, 980–1850."
The earliest surviving Chinese maps appeared. The first Chinese star catalogue was compiled. 389 BC: The Zuo Zhuan was published. 386 BC: The city of Handan was founded to serve as the Zhao capital. 381 BC: The Chu prime minister Wu Qi was murdered by nobles at the funeral of its king King Dao of Chu. 376 BC: An died. 375 BC
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.
The population of Europe in 2015 was estimated to be 741 million according to the United Nations, [12] which was slightly less than 11% of the world population. The precise figure depends on the exact definition of the geographic extent of Europe. The population of the European Union (EU) was 509 million as of 2015. [13]
The Mongol Yuan dynasty became the first conquest dynasty in Chinese history to rule the entirety of China proper and its population as an ethnic minority. The dynasty also directly controlled the Mongol heartland and other regions, inheriting the largest share of territory of the eastern Mongol empire , which roughly coincided with the modern ...
HONG KONG — China said Tuesday that its population declined last year for the first time in six decades, a historic shift with profound implications for the world’s second-largest economy ...
Graph of world population over the past 12,000 years . As a general rule, the confidence of estimates on historical world population decreases for the more distant past. Robust population data exist only for the last two or three centuries. Until the late 18th century, few governments had ever performed an accurate census.
In 1981, the Census recorded Britain's Chinese population as 154,363. Thirty-five Chinese-language newspapers and 362 periodicals were on sale from seven bookshops in Soho. Sing Tao itself had a circulation of 10,000 in Britain. The Chinese population now numbered the elderly, and 30,000 children in British schools.