Search results
Results From The WOW.Com Content Network
Banister, Judith. "A Brief History of China's Population," in Poston and Yaukey, eds. 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.
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.
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.
Estimate numbers are from the beginning of the year and exact population figures are for countries that held a census on various dates in the 1700s. The bulk of these numbers are sourced from Alexander V. Avakov's Two Thousand Years of Economic Statistics, Volume 1 , pages 18 to 20, which cover population figures from the year 1700 divided into ...
The United Nations has said India will surpass China as the world’s most populous nation later this year. China’s 9.56 million births are a decrease of almost 10% from 2021, when about 10.6 ...
That compares with a decline of 850,000 from 2021 to 2022, China’s first population decline in ... A U.S. study found last year that China had almost 2 million excess deaths in early 2023 after ...
This is a list of continental landmasses, continents, and continental subregions by population. For statistical convenience, the population of continental landmasses also include the population of their associated islands .
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.