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China's population pyramid, 2023 to 2100, as projected by the United Nations in 2022. China's population is aging faster than almost all other countries in modern history. [1] [2] In 2050, the proportion of Chinese over retirement age will become 39 percent of the total population according to projections.
Latest government statistics released this week show that China’s population aged 60 and above was at about 297 million in 2023, or 21.1% of the overall population, making the country a “super ...
Officials from the National Bureau of Statistics said mainland China had 1.41175 billion people at the end of 2022, compared with 1.41260 billion a year earlier, a decrease of 850,000.
The National Bureau of Statistics said the total number of people in China dropped by 1.39 million to 1.408 billion in 2024, compared to 1.409 billion in 2023. ... -China's population fell for a ...
The number of foreign residents rose 10% to 1.9 million people, partly because of an extension of a working visa program, the country's Yonhap news agency reported, citing the government statistics agency. That was enough to boost the total population ever so slightly -- by 0.2% to 51.8 million people. Of those, 9.5 million are 65 or older.
Population ageing is a shift in the distribution of a country's population towards older ages and is usually reflected in an increase in the population's mean and median ages, a decline in the proportion of the population composed of children, and a rise in the proportion of the population composed of the elderly.
It is the only index associated with the age distribution of a population. [ 1 ] Currently, the median age ranges from a low of about 18 or less in most Least Developed countries to 40 or more in most European countries, Canada , Cuba , Hong Kong , Japan , South Korea , Taiwan , and Thailand .
China's economy is slowing and its population is aging. Will that prompt its leaders to take risks now, before their power declines? China's economy is slowing, its population aging.