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The statistics bureau reported that China recorded 9.54 million births in 2024, up from 9.02 million in 2023. The birth rate increased to 6.77 births per 1,000 people in 2024, compared to 6.39 per ...
The national 1 July, mid-year population estimates (usually based on past national censuses) supplied in these tables are given in thousands. The retrospective figures use the present-day names and world political division: for example, the table gives data for each of the 15 republics of the former Soviet Union, as if they had already been independent in 1950.
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. [10] 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.
18 September – A ten-year old student of a Japanese school dies in a knife attack in Shenzhen. The suspect is arrested. [81] 25 September – China carries out its first test of an intercontinental ballistic missile since 1980, launching a dummy warhead into the Pacific Ocean [82] that lands near the Marquesas Islands. [83]
HONG KONG (Reuters) -China's population fell for a second consecutive year in 2023, as a record low birth rate and a wave of COVID-19 deaths when strict lockdowns ended accelerated a downturn that ...
China said that its population had declined for ... a record low birth rate of 6.77 per thousand — and 10.41 million deaths. ... world’s most populous nation later this year. China’s 9.56 ...
Globally, Christians have a birth rate of 2.7 children per woman. But Muslims have a higher rate, namely, an average of 3.1 children per woman. This differential is one of the reasons that the Muslim population is growing faster than the Christian. Size of youth population. "In 2010, more than a quarter of the world's total population (27%) was ...
A study by the Shanghai Academy of Social Sciences and Victoria University, Melbourne, Australia forecast China's population would be 525 million in 2100 compared to 1.4 billion in 2024. [145] In September 2024 China announced the retirement age would be raised as from January 2025 as there were too few young people and a growing senior population.