China population by year chart. Axiom of great deception

I came across an interesting article about the real population in China and the overestimation of this figure by official government sources. Very informative, I advise everyone to familiarize themselves with it. Even if you think that this material cannot be trusted, it will be very informative!

Today, patriotic circles often mention the desire of the Anglo-Saxon world to embed us in a war with China. Very similar to that. In this regard, it is often heard from various domestic experts that the Chinese are about to shower us with hats, take away the whole of Siberia and other catastrophic forecasts. Can this be?

I served 3 years of urgent service in the Far East in the border troops, studied patriotism on the example of the heroes of Damansky, however, as it seems to me, the devil is not so terrible ...

As you know, China, in addition to being a world factory, is also famous for its huge population of about 1.347 billion people (some experts do not stand on ceremony and talk about 1.5 billion - Russian 145 million people as a statistical error) , and the average density is about 140 people per 1 sq. km) and a fairly decent territory (3rd in the world after Russia and Canada - 9.56 million sq. km).

There is a story that either an orderly or some other assistant to Suvorov, writing down from the words of Alexander Vasilyevich a report to the capital about the next victory, was surprised at the overestimated numbers of killed enemy soldiers. To which, Suvorov allegedly said: "Why feel sorry for their foes!"

About the population

The Chinese, followed by the Indians, Indonesians, and indeed the whole of Asia, clearly understood that the population of their countries is the same strategic weapon as bombs and missiles.

No one can reliably say what is the actual demographic situation in Asia, in this case, in China. All data are estimates, at best, information from the Chinese themselves (the last census in 2000).

Surprisingly, despite the government's policy of limiting the birth rate (one family - one child) that has been pursued for the last 20 years, the population is still growing by 12 million people a year, according to experts, due to the huge baseline (i.e. initial) digits.

I am definitely not a demographer, but 2 + 2 = 4. If you have 100 people: two died in a year, one was born, in a year 99. If 100 million or 1 billion, and the ratio of births and deaths is negative, then what is the difference in the initial figure, the result will be negative. The Chinese and demographic experts, paradoxically, have a positive!

A very confusing question. For example, in the monograph "Historical Macrodynamics of China" by Korotaev, Malkov, Khalturin, there is an interesting table:

1845 - 430 million;
1870 - 350;
1890 - 380;
1920 - 430;
1940 - 430,
1945 - 490.

I came across an old atlas, which said that in 1939, i.e. before the 2nd World War, there were 350 million people in China. You don't need to be an expert to see the huge discrepancies and the absence of any coherent system in the behavior of the Chinese population.

Either a drop of 80 million over 25 years, then an increase of 50 million over 30 years, then no change over 20 years. The main thing is that the initial figure of 430 million was taken absolutely from the ceiling, who counted their adversaries. But the fact seems to be obvious - for 95 years from 1845 to 1940, the number of Chinese did not change, as it was, and remains.

But over the next 72 years (taking into account the destructive wars, hunger and poverty, more than 20 years of containment policy), the growth is almost a billion!

For example, everyone knows that the USSR lost 27 million people during the Great Patriotic War, but few people know that the second country in terms of human losses - China - 20 million people. Some experts (perhaps, like our Chubais) talk about 45 million. And despite such monstrous losses and all kinds of hardships in general, from 1940 to 1945 a huge increase of 60 million! Moreover, in addition to the World War, there was also a civilian in China, and 23 million people now live in Taiwan, who in the 40th year were considered Chinese.

However, as a result of the formation of the PRC in 1949, the population of the PRC has already reached 550 million people. For 4 years, we do not count those who fled to Taiwan, and the growth is simply galloping 60 million people. Then there was the Cultural Revolution with countless repressions and the eating of sparrows during the lean years, and the population grew faster and faster.

And yet, we will almost believe and count on our knees. 430 in 1940. That's a lot, of course. 430 million. About half are women (there are even fewer women in Asia, but let it be). About 200. Of these grandmothers and girls - 23 more. Women give birth from about 15 to 40 = 25 years, and live over 70. We get 70 million. We believe that there are no childless and lesbians in China, + discount on my demographic lack of professionalism = 70 million childbearing women in 1940.

How many children did these young ladies have to give birth to so that in 9 years there would be 490 million Chinese, a 15% increase? War, devastation, no medicine, the Japanese are atrocities ... According to science, if my memory serves me, in order not to simply reduce the population, you need to give birth to 3-3.5. And an additional 90 million for 70 million women in labor, another 1.2 people. Physically for 9 years 4-5 children are not easy, but possible, but….

The Internet writes that according to the 1953 census, 594 million, and in 1949, not 490, but 549 million. For 4 years, forty-five million. In 13 years the population has grown from 430 to 594, by 164 million, more than a third. Thus, 70 million women in 13 years gave birth to 3.5 for each for reproduction + about 2.5 (163: 70) = 6.

Someone will object, in Russia there was also a boom at the turn of the 19th and 20th centuries. But in Russia at that time the Japanese did not slaughter 20 million people + 20 million did not flee to Taiwan. And, returning to the table, what prevented the Chinese from increasing by at least 10 million in the previous 100 years? Immediately in 13 years 164 million, as if from a bush, into hunger and war. Yes, I almost forgot, such trifles as the Korean War, where about 150 thousand more childbearing Chinese men died, are completely ridiculous to take into account. In the decades that followed, the Chinese multiplied and multiplied beyond measure.

I think they just paint their Chinese, like the FRS dollars, out of thin air. Nobody argues, there are a lot of Chinese, as well as Indians and Indonesians, there are still plenty of Nigerians, Iranians, Pakistanis. But there are many, many are strife. And the Indians are great, they picked up the initiative in time.

Now a little about the territory. China is big, but ... Take a look at the administrative map of the PRC. There are so-called autonomous regions (Ary) in China. There are 5 of them, but now we are talking about 3: Xinjiang Uyghur, Inner Mongolia and Tibetan.

These three ARs occupy about 1.66 million sq. Km, 1.19 million sq. Km. km and 1.22 million sq. km, only about 4 million sq. km, almost half of the territory of the PRC! Lives in these territories, respectively, 19.6 million people, 23.8 million and 2.74 million, a total of about 46 million people, about 3% of the population of the PRC. Of course, these areas are not the most wonderful for living (mountains, deserts, steppes), but no worse than Outer Mongolia or our Tuva or, for example, Kyrgyzstan or Kazakhstan.

Most of the Chinese live in the area between the Yellow River and the Yangtze and on the warm coastline (South and Southeast). By the way about Mongolia. If Inner Mongolia is larger in territory than France and Germany combined, then Mongolia-Outer Mongolia is almost 1.5 times larger in territory than Inner Mongolia = 1.56 million square meters. km. There is practically no population of 2.7 million people (the density of 1.7 people per sq. Km, in the PRC, I recall, 140 a person lives per square kilometer, cockroaches and only if you believe the statistics).

The resources, for which the Chinese supposedly will go to Siberia, at the risk of running into Russian atomic bombs, in Mongolia, and in Kazakhstan the same, is full, but there are no bombs. Moreover, why not push the idea of reunification-unification of the Mongolian people under the wing of the Celestial Empire?

There are 150-200 thousand Chinese in Russia. Total! The total population of the Khabarovsk, Primorsky Territories, the Amur Region and the Jewish Autonomous Region (about 5 million) cannot be compared, of course, with the border province of Heilongjiang (38 million), but still.

However, the Mongols are sleeping peacefully (the Chinese and Russians in Mongolia combined 0.1% of the population - 2 thousand somewhere), the Kazakhs are also not very tense.

It seems to me that Burma needs to be afraid with its 50 million population and a rather large territory of 678 thousand square meters. km. The same South China billion hangs over it, it is in Myanmar that the dictatorial regime is, they, the villains, oppress the Chinese minority (1.5 million people). And, most importantly, the equator is nearby, the sea coast is huge and warm, warm.

But even the Burmese comrades, as they say, are not worried, and we are in a panic.

Well, okay, the Americans are afraid of the Chinese communists in Taiwanese affairs to put things in order, but Vietnam frankly runs up, shouts that it is not afraid, constantly reminds about the past fight, Laos and Cambodia took over, the newly-made Big Brother. China and Vietnam are arguing about oil-bearing islands, and so is the world.

Strange Chinese. The people are already sitting on each other's heads, and they do not even develop their vast territories, not to mention weak neighbors such as Burma and Mongolia. But they will definitely attack Buryatia, the 150,000th expeditionary force has already been sent out, half of them are stuck in Moscow for some reason, someone is in warm Vladivostok, but this is nonsense, at the first call - to Siberia.

Well, that's probably all, in the first approximation.

If you look at China, there is a lot of confusion: where do the 1.5 billion people who supposedly live in China live and what do they eat? The twenty largest urban centers provide a population of just over 200 million people ...
There is no need to bend about flat lands and flights to the moon, these are quite verifiable and obvious things for a thinking person.

I served 3 years of urgent service in the Far East in the border troops, studied patriotism on the example of the heroes of Damansky, however, as it seems to me, the devil is not so terrible ...

There is a story that either an orderly, or some other assistant to AV Suvorov, writing down from the words of Alexander Vasilyevich a report to the capital about the next victory, was surprised at the overestimated numbers of killed enemy soldiers. To which, AV Suvorov allegedly said: "Why feel sorry for their foes!"

About the population

The Chinese, followed by the Indians, Indonesians, and indeed the whole of Asia, clearly understood that the population of their countries is the same strategic weapon as bombs and missiles.

No one can reliably say what is the actual demographic situation in Asia, in this case, in China. All data are estimates, at best, information from the Chinese themselves (the last census in 2000).

A very confusing question. For example, in the monograph "Historical Macrodynamics of China" by Korotaev, Malkov, Khalturin, there is an interesting table:

1845 - 430 million;
1870 - 350;
1890 - 380;
1920 - 430;
1940 - 430,
1945 - 490.

But over the next 72 years (taking into account the destructive wars, hunger and poverty, more than 20 years of containment policy), the growth is almost a billion!

And yet, we will almost believe and count on our knees. 430 in 1940. That's a lot, of course. 430 million. About half are women (there are even fewer women in Asia, but let it be). About 200. Of these, grandmothers and girls - another 2/3. Women give birth from about 15 to 40 = 25 years, and live over 70. We get 70 million. We believe that there are no childless and lesbians in China, + discount on my demographic lack of professionalism = 70 million childbearing women in 1940.

Most of the Chinese live in the area between the Yellow River and the Yangtze and on the warm coastline (South and Southeast). By the way about Mongolia. If Inner Mongolia is larger in territory than France and Germany combined, then Mongolia-Outer Mongolia is almost 1.5 times larger in territory than Inner Mongolia = 1.56 million square meters. km. There is practically no population of 2.7 million people (the density of 1.7 people per sq. Km, in the PRC, let me remind you, 140, including the above-named Aras, where the density, respectively: 12, 20 and 2 people / sq. Km; in Mesopotamia under 300 people per square kilometer lives, cockroaches and only, if you believe the statistics).

However, the Mongols are sleeping peacefully (the Chinese and Russians in Mongolia put together 0.1% of the population - 2 thousand somewhere), the Kazakhs are also not very tense.

But even the Burmese comrades, as they say, are not worried, and we are in a panic.

Well, that's probably all, in the first approximation.

Additional considerations on this ...

The world's population is rapidly declining. It is possible to estimate this decline at least by the real population of China. Surely the same can be said about India, and about other obviously poor countries, with an unaffordable "large" population ...

It is quite easy to check this: you need to go to Wikipedia and sum up the population of the 20 largest cities in China. And you get an impressive number of about 230 million people (taking into account the population of the districts). Where do the rest of the people live? Where do the rest of the billion live? In the countryside? Does he live in cottages? Where do they grow food then? In the mountains of Tibet, which occupy almost half of the country's territory? But they need a lot of food, if you believe that China is home to 1 billion 340 million people!

We look further. Duropedia reports that in 2010, China produced 546 million tons of grain, while the cultivated area in China is 155.7 million hectares. And to ensure normal nutrition for the population, the country needs to grow on average about 1 ton of grain per person per year. Part of this grain is used for livestock feed, and part for bread making and other needs. So China is clearly not providing itself with grain, if you believe that it has such a large population. Or it provides, if the population there is 3 times less than it is believed.

By the way, you can easily check this by the indicators of the United States. And everything will be clear and understandable right away! Look: in the United States, an average of about 60 million tons of wheat is harvested per year from an area of about 20 million hectares. In addition, 334 million tons of corn are harvested there from 37.8 million hectares, and 91.47 million tons of soybeans from an area of 30.9 million hectares. Thus, the total grain harvest is about 485 million tons from an area of about 89 million hectares. And the population of the United States is only about 300 million people! Surplus cereals are exported.

This immediately shows that the lack of grain production in China is about 800 million tons per year, which is practically nowhere to buy, if you believe that the population is 1.4 billion people. And if you do not believe in this fairy tale, then everything falls into place, and the population of China should be no more than 500 million people!

And one more clue: Wikipedia reports that the share of urban population in 2011 for the first time was 51.27%, which also confirms the hypothesis that the real population of China does not exceed 500 million people.

The same is happening with India! Let's count the population of the 20 largest cities in India. The answer will surprise you very much: it is only about 75 million people. 75 million people! And where do the rest of the billion two hundred million live? The country's territory is slightly more than 3 million square meters. km. Apparently, they live in nature with a density of about 400 people per 1 sq. km.

The population density in India is twice that of Germany. But in Germany there are solid cities all over the territory. And in India, allegedly about 5% of the population lives in cities. For comparison: in Russia, the share of the urban population is 73%, with a population density of 8.56 people / sq. Km. But in the United States, the share of the urban population is 81.4%, with a population density of 34 people / sq. km.

Could the official information on India be true? Of course not! The population density in rural areas is always only a few people per sq. km, i.e. 100 times lower than in India. And this is a clear confirmation that the population in India is 5-10 times less than what is written in official sources.

In addition, according to Wikipedia, almost 70% of Indians live in rural areas, so our estimated 75 million urban residents make up about 30% of India's population. Consequently, the total population of this proportion will be about 250 million people, which is much more true than the tale of a billion.

China is a huge country with a population of well over 1 billion people. Until recently, the Celestial Empire was considered the world's first country in terms of population. However, in 2017, there were changes and India won the championship in this category. Therefore, today, China is the second largest country in the world in terms of population.

According to statistics conducted by the PRC, 1.4 billion people were registered in the country in 2018. At that time, the government of the country fought hard enough against overpopulation. Until 2016, the state had such a policy: "One seed - one child", but there were exceptions to the rule. It was allowed to have more children for families from ethnic minorities, as well as residents of rural areas.

The main goal of the government is to stabilize the population and prevent a significant increase in the number of people. However, according to many experts, in just 20 years the country's population may increase by another 200 million people.

China population 2019

In January 2016, the restriction that each family can have only one child was lifted, now it is allowed to have two babies. As of 2019, the population of China is 1,430,075,000 and this figure is constantly increasing. In this country, the birth rate is almost twice the death rate, so every year there is a significant increase in people.

It should be noted separately that the state has a very low percentage of emigration. In six months, only 19,000 people left the country, this figure is incredibly small, given the number of people living in the PRC.

China population density

The UN Statistics Division notes that the People's Republic of China has an area of 9 598 089 square kilometers. China is the third largest country in the world by area. It is worth noting that this figure includes the area of the entire territory, namely land and water bodies, which are within the state border of the Celestial Empire.

Population density is calculated relative to the current number of people who live in the country to the actual territory of the state. By the beginning of 2017, about 1,382,494,824 people lived in China. Having made fairly simple calculations, we can conclude that the population density in the PRC is equal to 144 people per 1 square kilometer.

Composition of the population of China

The bulk of the population of this country is the Han people, at the moment they are home to slightly more than 91%. About 8.5% are various minorities; 113 million people live on the territory of this state. For comparison, there are 1 billion 225 million Han people in China.

Life expectancy

This demographic indicator is very important in relation to the population of the country. This indicator determines how much the average citizen of this country lives on average.

It is worth noting that the average life expectancy in this country is higher than the world average. The United Nations Department of Social Affairs reports that the world's average life expectancy is 71 years, and in China, people live for about 74.7 years. This indicator is compiled for both sexes.

In this country, men live 4 years less than women. According to statistics, the average Chinese man lives 72.7 years, and the woman is almost 77 years old.

Population manipulation

At the moment, there is no 100% evidence that the Chinese authorities deliberately overestimate the number, however, such assumptions were put forward by a professor at the University of Wisconsin. He voiced his conjectures when he was giving a lecture at one of the Beijing universities.

According to the professor, the number of this country is artificially overstated by 90 million people (this is twice the population of Spain). Based on the professor's evidence, it can be argued that in fact, 1.29 billion people live on the territory of the PRC. Thus, China is not the most populous country, and India is in the lead.

Moreover, this country is home to a very large number of people over 60 years old - 15.5%. It was to the poet that the Chinese authorities relaxed the restriction that there must be one child in one family. There is also a high degree of probability that soon it will be allowed to have a family of more than two children.

Conclusion

China is an incredibly large and densely populated country with over a billion people. The average life expectancy here is higher than the world average. At the same time, the local population is quite literate, 96% of the population over 15 years old can read and write. These numbers are not the most impressive, but they are quite good.

China is one of the most mysterious and interesting countries in the world, which attracts both by its history or culture, and by the peculiarities of economic and demographic factors. The most famous of all the facts about China is its population of over a billion.

People's Republic of China(official name) remains the first country in the world to achieve this indicator even before 1982, when the next population census was carried out. At the moment, the PRC has exceeded it by almost 400 million people.

There are several important factors affecting population growth, which in their time influenced in different ways the formation of a virtually mono-national people, as well as some estimates and statistics regarding the demographic situation in the country in different periods of history, including the future.

The main reasons for the rapid population growth are considered to be cultural as well as economic factors, which should be considered in the context of history.

Therefore, in order to have a clear understanding of the specifics of the demographic situation in China, it is worth considering the following factors:

Statistics (including estimates) regarding the number of inhabitants as of today.
Ethnic constituents of Chinese society.
The history of changes in the number of inhabitants of the country.
Population growth trends.
Predictions for future changes.

China is the country with the largest population

The People's Republic of China has officially conducted a population census 6 times. The last census in China was conducted in 2010 and is one of the most accurate.

According to these statistics, the population of China in 2010 was exactly 1 billion 339 million 724 thousand 852 people. Only the data of mainland China took part in the official calculation - the population of Hong Kong (7.1 million), Macau (550 thousand) and disputed Taiwan (the official name is the Republic of China, 23.2 million) was not taken into account.

Compared to the census that took place ten years earlier, the population of mainland China grew by 94.6 million between 2000 and 2010.

According to some estimates, in 2013 there were already 1,363.95 million Chinese.

The official population counter of the PRC in 2016 reports that the population by this time had grown to 1,376.57 million.

It is noteworthy that with such indicators, the population growth rate in China is about 0.47-0.49% per year. This figure is only 159 in a row among all countries in the world. In terms of population, China deservedly ranks first in the world, ahead of India, as of 2013 - more than 110 million inhabitants.

Ethnic groups in China

According to official figures from the 2010 census, 91.51% of China's residents are Han, the largest ethnic group in the world. Thus, China is considered a mono-national country, which is more than remarkable.

Since 1953, over 57 years, this indicator has decreased by 2.43%, while the total number of the country's inhabitants has more than doubled over the same period. As of the last census, minorities make up about 8 and a half percent of China's population.

Among the minorities in the Middle Kingdom, the most common:

Zhuang - 1.26%, almost 17 million;
Hui - 0.79%, about 10.5 million inhabitants;
Manchus - 0.78%, slightly less than 10.4 million people;
Uighurs - 0.75%, 10 million people;
Miao people - 0.7%, 9.4 million people.

In addition, the Tujia and Buo peoples, as well as the Mongols, Tibetans, and Koreans, retain a small perceptible presence in the national composition of the country.

In some cases, the increase and decrease in the number of representatives of certain ethnic groups in China has changed in the course of political and historical events, although these changes over the past century against the background of the general demographic picture can hardly be called tangible.

So, in 1951, the seizure by the Chinese authorities Tibet led to an increase in the population of the ethnic group of Tibetans.

In 1949, due to education Republic of China on the island of Taiwan, which separated from the mainland, and the communist proclamation on the mainland People's Republic of China the political conflict between the territories officially belonging to the PRC, but at the same time actually independent from each other, has escalated.

The island of Taiwan at one time, from 1895 to 1945, belonged to Japan, so the ethnic component of the population in the Republic of China can also amend the overall picture of the demographic situation, since the PRC still has its territorial claims to Taiwan.

Formation of China within its current borders

In fact, China includes the mainland, some islands, as well as special administrative units:

Macau- on the peninsula of the same name Macau and the islands of Taipa and Coloane;
Hong Kong.

Both of these formations were once colonies of European countries. Macau belonged to Portugal for almost 5 centuries - from 1557 to 1999. Hong Kong was a colony of Great Britain, which in 1997 returned this territory to the PRC according to the joint declaration of the PRC and the United Kingdom.

In both special districts, the main population is ethnic Chinese - about 95%.

After 1999, China did not actually change territorially, although claims to other disputed territories were and were subsequently resolved in favor of the PRC.

Thus, in some disputed territories, China established its jurisdiction as a result of agreements with Kyrgyzstan in 1996 and 1999, Kazakhstan in 1994 and 1999, Tajikistan in 1999 and 2011, as well as with the Russian Federation in 2005. In addition, the PRC retains territorial claims to almost all neighboring states.

Chinese languages and the youth factor

Most languages and dialects in China are not spread. The most popular are Mandarin language, as well as the Mandarin dialect, which is widespread in the Chinese capital Beijing and in the territories adjacent to it, the Mandarin dialect is used by the majority of Chinese - about 70% of the population speaks it.

The common language of Mandarin is close to the majority of the young population, and representatives of the older generations often use dialects of local ethnic groups or Mandarin.

Trends and Causes of Population Growth in China

China has always been a huge country with a large population. In 2100 BC, its population was approximately 4 million. Due to the well-established traditional and cultural values, most of China's lands have always remained part of one large country.

The percentage of growth of 0.47-0.49% per year, as well as the ratio of the number of children born to the number of women (1.18 is the so-called fertility rate), according to which China occupies only 183 place among the countries of the world, cannot be considered the reason for the growth of China's population total.

The fact is that it is the largest Asian country with below average growth, and it is only due to the size of the territory and the base population that the average growth of more than 22 million people per year is such an impressive number. Although in history there are also periods of rapid growth of the Chinese population.

Historical dynamics of population change in China

Due to historical changes, there is a constant increase in the number of inhabitants in the territory of modern China, with some periods of decline.

So in 700 BC, the population in China grew to 12 million. In 57 A.D. the population reached 38 million, and in 290 it was 24 million.

Until 1200, the population only grew again and reached 9-digit number - 105 million people. But in the thirteenth century, that number dropped again to 77 million.

After that, until 1910, the population only grew and at the beginning of the 20th century reached over 400 million people.

Over the past 60 years, there has been the largest change in the number of Chinese people. Thus, from 1950 to the present day, the number of inhabitants of the Chinese territories has increased by 800 million, which is associated with the improvement in the quality of life of the ordinary Chinese during the transition to the industrial era.

Modern age structure of China's population

Today, there is a preponderance of the number of men relative to the female population. According to the 2010 census, there are about 118-119 male births per 100 women born, and in all age categories the percentage of men is higher than that of women, except for the oldest population.

Thus, there are 113 men per 100 women under the age of 15 in China. In the age group under 65, there are 106 men per 100 women, and over the age of 65, only 91 men per 100 women.

Demographic policy of the PRC. "One family - one child"

In order to reduce the population growth rates in China in the past 40 years, the authorities of the People's Republic of China, from the mid-seventies of the last century, began to implement a tough demographic policy, which was characterized by the following elements:

one family - one child policy;
popularization of late marriages;
additional restrictions for starting a family;
free abortions and others.

One Child Policy assumes certain benefits for a Chinese family with one child. Thus, a family of three has advantages in obtaining housing, as well as in educational institutions, where children are sent free of charge. In some particularly overpopulated areas of China, fines have been imposed on families with more than one child, which include fines, refund of bonuses, and so on.

Officially, women in China can get married at 20, men at 22, which is a guarantee later marriages... But contrary to government policy, there are trends towards traditionally early marriages in some areas.

The state undertakes certain restrictions for their citizens in terms of the possibility of creating a family. For example, it is known about the prohibition of creating a family for students, which may even lead to expulsion from a higher educational institution.

Among other things, all of China has a large number of medical institutions where free abortions are performed, which also specifically affects demographics. It is noteworthy that most Chinese families prefer to have sons - for economic reasons. Since traditionally women remain more sensitive to the problems of unwanted pregnancies than men, with the prospect of the future, most families, having learned about the imminent birth of a daughter, try to get rid of the child and, consequently, possible problems. The aspect of a predominantly atheistic worldview in the PRC also contributes to this in some way.

In addition, in rural areas, boys also remain preferred because of the need for a strong family work contract to run the household. It is not uncommon for newborn girls in the Chinese hinterland to be killed by their own parents in order to have a better chance of a prosperous life for the rest of the family.

The modern population of China - demographic indicators

The largest population growth in China, as described above, occurred in the second half of the 20th century. Traditionally, the growth in the number of residents took place in rural areas with an agricultural direction of employment. But besides this, the trend towards an increase in the urban population persisted.

The number and density of the population in different regions

The average population density in China is 134 people per square kilometer, which, in total, is comparable to that of some Central European countries, such as Switzerland.

At the same time, almost half of China's territory, mainly high-mountainous regions, has a population of less than 50 people per 1 square kilometer. These territories include Qinghai, Tibet Autonomous Prefecture, Xinjiang Uygur Autonomous Prefecture, and Inner Mongolia Autonomous Prefecture. The most densely populated areas of China are the provinces of Tianjin, Henan, Guangdong, Anhui, Zhejiang, as well as the territory of Shanghai, Hong Kong and Macau, where the population density ranges from 400 to 900 people per 1 square kilometer or more. All these territories are mainly located in the Eastern and South-Eastern parts of the country.

Urbanization in the PRC. Major cities with the largest population

The last 35 years for China have been characterized by a rapid growth in urban population. In most cases, this is due to the inclusion of rural areas in cities.

So in 1978, as a result of the administrative reform, which changed the required number of population for the recognition of a settlement as a city from 100 thousand to 3 thousand people. This made it possible to increase the urban population, which already in 2014 amounted to about 55% of all residents of China. Moreover, most of them (about 35% of the country's inhabitants) live in rural areas that were annexed to the city prefectures during the reform.

According to China's urban population counting standards, 85% of city residents must be engaged in non-agricultural activities in order to maintain this status.

In 2010, 34 cities with a population of one million were recorded in the PRC, of which 7 settlements surpassed the threshold of 10 million inhabitants.

The largest cities in China by population, according to the census:

Shanghai - 22.3 million people;
Beijing - 18.8 million
Chongqing - 15.3 million;
Tianjin - 11.1 million
Guangzhou - 11.1 million
Shenzhen - 10.4 million;
Wuhan - 10.1 million

Life span

Over the past 10 years, life expectancy in China has averaged about 73 years: about 71 - for men, and, according to various sources, 74-75 - for women.

The working age is 73.5% of the Chinese (15 to 65 years old). The percentage of children was 17%, and the percentage of those who were unable to work due to the old age of the population was 9.5%.

Population growth projections in China

The US Census Bureau and the UN present their projections for population changes in the Middle Kingdom in the next decades.

The peak and turning point, according to both analytic estimates presented to the general public, will occur in 2030, when the population will grow to 1.39 billion people. Already in 2050, both organizations predict a drop in the population to 1.3 billion.

In addition, the United Nations believes that closer to 2100, the number of inhabitants of the Middle Kingdom will fall to below 1 billion people.

China is our major economic partner. This arouses great interest in him. China's population is the largest in the world. The hardworking Chinese have long been known in Russia for their excellent agricultural and catering enterprises, and for the products of light industry in

large shopping centers and small shops. And not only in our country. The Chinese diaspora is the largest in many states, including the United States.

Reasons for migrations

Not because of a good life, the inhabitants of the Celestial Empire go abroad, often leaving their families at home. The population of China has remained the largest in the world since ancient times. Moreover, it is constantly increasing. In 2013 alone, it grew by 6.68 million people.

China's population is growing at a fairly rapid pace, although not as much as in 1960-1970. This makes it increasingly difficult for the country's young people to find good jobs. And in search of happiness, they leave their homeland, trying to find a job abroad. Most of them manage to gain a foothold in a foreign country, because hard work is a distinctive feature of the Chinese.

Population information

The population of China in 2014 was 1.36 billion people. During the year, 16.4 million children were born in the country, and the number of deaths was equal to 9.72 million. Population growth in China for the year was 4.9 percent.

The male population predominates in the sex structure. The number of men at the end of 2013 was 697.28 million, and women - 663.44 million.

17.5% of the population are children under 14 years of age. And the share of people over 60 years old increased to 14.9%. The number of working-age population in 2013 decreased by 2.5 million people. China's population is aging. Many researchers predict a sharp

reduction in the number of able-bodied people, when the retirement border is reached, those born during the years of the peak of population growth. The wave of "aging", in their opinion, will overtake China in the next decade and will become a heavy burden on the shoulders of those who continue to work.

The share of townspeople was 53.73%. In the past year alone, the population of Chinese cities has grown by 19.29 million. Moreover, the growth was mainly due not to natural growth, but due to migration from rural areas.

China's population changes

According to demographers and historians, by the beginning of our era, about 60 million people lived on the territory of present-day China. For a long time, there was practically no registration of the population, and the data concerned only the number of families. In 1912 and 1928, the population censuses of China were carried out, but they gave only approximate data.

According to the results of the 1953 census, the population was 582.6 million people. The secret census of 1964 yielded 646.5 million people. By that time, the birth rate was 34 people per 1000, and the death rate dropped to 8 people per 1000. As a result, the population grew by 2.6% annually!