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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).
Under Mao Zedong, China nearly doubled in population from 540 million in 1949 to 969 million in 1979. This growth slowed because of the one-child policy instituted in 1979. [16] The 2022 data shows a declining population for the first time since 1961. [17] China's population reached 1 billion in 1982, making it the first country to reach this ...
China’s 9.56 million births are a decrease of almost 10% from 2021, when about 10.6 million babies were born. The death rate of 7.37 per 1,000 people was up from 7.18 in 2021, when China ...
This is the list of countries and other inhabited territories of the world by total population, based on estimates published by the United Nations in the 2024 revision of World Population Prospects. It presents population estimates from 1950 to the present.
That compares with a decline of 850,000 from 2021 to 2022, China’s first population decline in six decades. ... told NBC News. A “rebound” in newborns is expected in 2024, she added. ...
The country reported a drop of roughly 850,000 people for a population of 1.41175 billion in 2022, marking the first decline since 1961, the last year of China's Great Famine.
Still, it was reported that China's population may peak in 2022, which is much earlier than previously estimated. [24] In May 2021, the National Bureau of Statistics of China released a report revising the data for the previous 10 years before the 2020 census. They announced that there were about 10 million more births between 2011 and 2019 ...
China's 2023 rate of 7.87 deaths per 1,000 people was higher than a rate of 7.37 deaths in 2022. The country's retirement-age population, aged 60 and over, is expected to increase to more than 400 ...