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Based on United Nations and Chinese government statistics, it was estimated in 1987 that by 2000 the population 60 years and older (the retirement age is 60 in urban areas) would number 127 million, or 10.1% of the total population; the projection for 2025 was 234 million elderly, or 16.4%.
On April 28, 2021, Bloomberg News, quoting the Chinese state media outlet the Global Times, reported that it is unlikely there would be a drop in the total population in the 2020 census, citing a comment by Lu Jiehua, a professor at Peking University. Still, it was reported that China's population may peak in 2022, which is much earlier than ...
This is a list of Asian countries and dependencies by population in Asia, total projected population from the United Nations [1] ... China: 29.9%: 1,425,671,352:
The total population of mainland China was 1.409 billion at the end of last year, the National Statistics Bureau said, down more than 2 million from 2022. ... Chinese officials on Wednesday ...
The National Bureau of Statistics said the total number of people in China dropped by 2.08 million, or 0.15%, to 1.409 billion in 2023. ... -China's population fell for a second consecutive year ...
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 ...
The total permanent population of Chongqing, Shanghai, Beijing and Chengdu is above 20 million. [451] Shanghai is China's most populous urban area [452] [453] while Chongqing is its largest city proper, the only city in China with a permanent population of over 30 million. [454]
China’s working population, classified as those between the ages of 16 and 59, declined by 10.75 million last year, adding to an ongoing contraction. ... pointing to how the total increase in ...