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China is the second most populous country in Asia as well as the second most populous country in the world, with a population of approximately 1.4 billion. China has an enormous population with a relatively small youth component, partially a result of China's one-child policy that was implemented from 1979 until 2015.
Census result. The population of mainland China was 1,411,778,724 [9] as of 1 November 2020. [10] In addition, Hong Kong's population was 7,474,200 (provided by the Hong Kong SAR Government at the end of 2020) and Macau's population was 683,218 (provided by the Macau SAR Government at the end of 2020).
List of countries by population (United Nations) This is a list of countries and other inhabited territories of the world by total population, based on estimates published by the United Nations in the 2022 revision of World Population Prospects. It presents population estimates from 1950 to the present. [2]
The total population of mainland China was 1.409 billion at the end of last year, the National Statistics Bureau said, down more than 2 million from 2022.
The U.S. population, by contrast, is predicted to grow from its current 337 million, mostly through immigration. The world’s overall population reached 8 billion in November , according to the U.N.
HONG KONG (Reuters) -China's population fell for a second consecutive year in 2023, as a record low birth rate and a wave of COVID-19 deaths when strict lockdowns ended accelerated a downturn that ...
China, [h] officially the People's Republic of China ( PRC ), [i] is a country in East Asia. With a population exceeding 1.4 billion, it is the world's second-most populous country. China spans the equivalent of five time zones and borders fourteen countries by land. [j] With an area of nearly 9.6 million square kilometers (3,700,000 sq mi), it ...
China will begin polling 1.4 million people on Wednesday in a survey on population changes, as authorities struggle to incentivise people to have more children amid a declining birth rate and the ...