12.02.2008 - Source: CIA - The World Factbook

Population [ID 3523]

"Population:

1,321,851,888 (July 2007 est.)

Age structure:

0-14 years: 20.4% (male 143,527,634/female 126,607,344)
15-64 years: 71.7% (male 487,079,770/female 460,596,384)
65 years and over: 7.9% (male 49,683,856/female 54,356,900) (2007 est.)

Median age:

total: 33.2 years
male: 32.7 years
female: 33.7 years (2007 est.)

Population growth rate:

0.606% (2007 est.)

Birth rate:

13.45 births/1,000 population (2007 est.)

Death rate:

7 deaths/1,000 population (2007 est.)

Net migration rate:

-0.39 migrant(s)/1,000 population (2007 est.)

Sex ratio:

at birth: 1.11 male(s)/female
under 15 years: 1.134 male(s)/female
15-64 years: 1.057 male(s)/female
65 years and over: 0.914 male(s)/female
total population: 1.06 male(s)/female (2007 est.)

Infant mortality rate:

total: 22.12 deaths/1,000 live births
male: 20.01 deaths/1,000 live births
female: 24.47 deaths/1,000 live births (2007 est.)

Life expectancy at birth:

total population: 72.88 years
male: 71.13 years
female: 74.82 years (2007 est.)

Total fertility rate:

1.75 children born/woman (2007 est.)

HIV/AIDS - adult prevalence rate:

0.1% (2003 est.)

HIV/AIDS - people living with HIV/AIDS:

840,000 (2003 est.)

HIV/AIDS - deaths:

44,000 (2003 est.)

Nationality:

noun: Chinese (singular and plural)
adjective: Chinese

Ethnic groups:

Han Chinese 91.9%, Zhuang, Uygur, Hui, Yi, Tibetan, Miao, Manchu, Mongol, Buyi, Korean, and other nationalities 8.1%

Religions:

Daoist (Taoist), Buddhist, Christian 3%-4%, Muslim 1%-2%
note: officially atheist (2002 est.)

Languages:

Standard Chinese or Mandarin (Putonghua, based on the Beijing dialect), Yue (Cantonese), Wu (Shanghainese), Minbei (Fuzhou), Minnan (Hokkien-Taiwanese), Xiang, Gan, Hakka dialects, minority languages (see Ethnic groups entry)

Literacy:

definition: age 15 and over can read and write
total population: 90.9%
male: 95.1%
female: 86.5% (2000 census)"

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04.2005 - Source: UK Home Office

Country report of April 2005 ("Country Report - April 2005") [#31975],  [ID 3524]

"As reported by the official People’s Daily newspaper on 3 January 2005, “The population of mainland China is expected to reach 1.3 billion on Jan. 6, according to a prediction [by] the National Statistics Bureau (NSB) released on Sunday.”

On the 6 January 2005 the paper reported that, “Of the total population, 59.47 percent are based in rural areas and 40.53 percent in urban areas. The life expectancy of the Chinese people is 71.40 years.”

As reported by the BBC on their special website Changing China (Modern Giant: Facts and Figures behind the changing face of China), China's 1.3bn people make up one-fifth of the world's population."

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10.2003 - Source: UK Home Office

Country report of October 2003 ("Country Report - October 2003") [#49232],  [ID 3525]

"The total population of the PRC was estimated in 2003 at 1.292 billion with an average life expectancy of 68.9 for men and 72.7 for women. The official population growth rate was 0.93 per cent for the same period, though this is likely be an under estimate do to the under reporting of female birth as a result of China's “One Child Policy”. Han Chinese make up 91.9 per cent of the population."

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31.03.2003 - Source: US Department of State

USDOS: Estimates of the fertility rate vary from 1.8 to 2.3 births per woman ("Country Reports on Human Rights Practices - 2002") [#11835],  [ID 3526]

"Local officials, caught between pressures from superiors to show declining birth rates, and from local citizens to allow them to have more than one child, frequently made false reports. The SFPC estimated fertility at 1.8 births per woman, a figure roughly confirmed by the 2000 census, and claimed that the yearly growth rate of the population has dropped to less than 1 percent per year. However, many Chinese and international demographers estimated the fertility rate to be up to 2.0-2.3 births per woman."

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