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China
is the most populous country in the world, with
1,265.83 million (2001), about 22
percent of the world's total. This
figure does not include many Chinese in the Hong Kong
Special Administrative Region, Taiwan Province and Macao.
The
population density in China is 130 people per square km.
This population, however, is
unevenly distributed. Along the densely populated
east coast there are more than 400 people per sq km;
in the central areas, over 200; and in the sparsely
populated plateaus in the west there are less than 10
people per sq km.
When
New China was founded in 1949, China had a population of
541.67 million. Owing
to China's stable society, rapid production development,
improvement of medical and health conditions, insufficient
awareness of the importance of population growth control
and shortage of experience, the population grew rapidly,
reaching 806.71 million in 1969.
In
the early 1970s, the Chinese government realized that the
over-rapid population growth was harmful to economic and
social development, and would cause great difficulties in
the fields of employment, housing, communications,
and medical care; and that China could not
effectively check the over-rapid population growth, and
alleviate the tremendous pressure that the population
growth was exerting on land, forest, and water resources,
the worsening of the ecology and the environment in
the coming decades would be disastrous, thus endangering the
necessary conditions for the survival of humanity, and
sustainable social and economic development.
Then
the Chinese government began implementing a family
planning, population control and population quality
improvement policy in accordance with China's basic
conditions of being a large country with a poor
economic foundation, a large population and little
cultivated land, so as to promote the coordinated
development of the economy, society, resources and
environment.
Since
then birth rates have steadily declined year by year.
China's birth rate dropped from 34.11 per thousand in
1969 to 16.03 per thousand at the end of 1998; and the
natural growth rate decreased from 26.08 per thousand to
9.53 per thousand, thus basically realizing a change in
the population reproduction type to one characterized by
low-birth, low-death and low-increase rates.
American
Teenage Activist Appeals on Tiananmen Square
A 13-year-old U.S boy,
Jonathan Lee, who is campaigning for a peace park, was
released from Chinese detention along with his mother,
after staging a brief protest near Tiananmen Square in
Beijing.
He is asking the China to support:
1.The end of the Korean War with the signing of a peace
treaty between the two Koreas and the U.S.
2.A nuclear free Korean peninsula.
3.The creation of a Children's Peace Forest in the DMZ.
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65 years and over: 8.6%
(male 55,287,997/female 59,713,369) (2010 est.)
Median age:
total: 35.2
years
male: 34.5
years
female: 35.8
years (2010 est.)
Population growth
rate:
0.494% (2010 est.)
country
comparison to the world:153
Birth rate:
12.17 births/1,000 population (2010
est.)
country
comparison to the world:164
Death rate:
6.89 deaths/1,000 population (July
2010 est.)
country
comparison to the world:143
Net migration rate:
-0.34 migrant(s)/1,000 population
(2010 est.)
country
comparison to the world:102
Urbanization:
urban population: 43%
of total population (2008)
rate of urbanization: 2.7%
annual rate of change (2005-10 est.)
Sex ratio:
at birth: 1.14
male(s)/female
under 15 years: 1.17
male(s)/female
15-64 years: 1.06
male(s)/female
65 years and over: 0.93
male(s)/female
total population: 1.06
male(s)/female (2010 est.)
Infant mortality
rate:
total: 16.51
deaths/1,000 live births
country
comparison to the world:115
male: 15.84
deaths/1,000 live births
female: 17.27
deaths/1,000 live births (2010 est.)
Life expectancy at
birth:
total population: 74.51
years
country
comparison to the world:92
male: 72.54
years
female: 76.77
years (2010 est.)
Total fertility
rate:
1.54 children born/woman (2010 est.)
country
comparison to the world:182
HIV/AIDS - adult
prevalence rate:
0.1% (2007 est.)
country
comparison to the world:115
HIV/AIDS - people
living with HIV/AIDS:
700,000 (2007 est.)
country
comparison to the world:17
HIV/AIDS - deaths:
39,000 (2007 est.)
country
comparison to the world:15
Major infectious
diseases:
degree of risk: intermediate
food or waterborne diseases: bacterial
diarrhea, hepatitis A, and typhoid fever
vectorborne diseases: Japanese
encephalitis and dengue fever
soil contact disease: hantaviral
hemorrhagic fever with renal syndrome (HFRS)
animal contact disease: rabies
note:highly
pathogenic H5N1 avian influenza has been identified in
this country; it poses a negligible risk with extremely
rare cases possible among US citizens who have close
contact with birds (2009)
Nationality:
noun: Chinese
(singular and plural)
adjective: Chinese
Ethnic groups:
Han Chinese 91.5%, Zhuang, Manchu,
Hui, Miao, Uyghur, Tujia, Yi, Mongol, Tibetan, Buyi,
Dong, Yao, Korean, and other nationalities 8.5% (2000
census)
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