Back التركيبة السكانية في الصين Arabic Demografía de la República Popular China AST Çin əhalisi Azerbaijani Насельніцтва Кітаю BE-X-OLD Население на Китай Bulgarian Obyvatelstvo Číny Czech Kinas demografi Danish Demografie der Volksrepublik China German Δημογραφία της Κίνας Greek Demografio de Ĉinio Esperanto
| Demographics of China | |
|---|---|
 Population pyramid of China in November 2020 | |
| Population |  1,408,280,000 (31 December 2024)[1] |
| Growth rate | −0.15% (2023 est.) (159th) |
| Birth rate |  6.77 births per 1,000 (2024 est.) [2] |
| Death rate | 7.87 deaths per 1,000 (2023 est.) |
| Life expectancy | 78.6 years (2022) |
| • male | 76.0 years (2022) |
| • female | 81.3 years (2022) |
| Fertility rate | 1.20 children per woman (2024 est.)[3] |
| Infant mortality rate | 6.76 deaths per 1000 live births (2022)[4] |
| Age structure | |
| 0–14 years | 16.48% (male 124,166,174/female 108,729,429) |
| 15–64 years | 69.4% (male 504,637,819/female 476,146,909) |
| 65 and over | 14.11% (male 92,426,805/female 107,035,710) (2023 est.)[5] |
| Sex ratio | |
| At birth | 1.11 male to female (2020 est.) |
| 65 and over | 0.90 male to female (2020 est.) |
| Nationality | |
| Major ethnic |  Han Chinese (91.11%)[6] |
| Minor ethnic | |
| Language | |
| Official | Standard Chinese |
| Spoken | Various; See Languages of China |
The People's Republic of China is the second most-populous country in the world with a population exceeding 1.4 billion, only surpassed by India. Historically, China has always been one of the nation-states with the most population.
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, which limited urban families to one offspring and rural families to two. As of 2022[update], Chinese state media reported the country's total fertility rate to be 1.09.[7]
China was the world's most populous country from at least 1950[8] until being surpassed by India in 2023.[9][10]
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 -0.10%.[12][13] China conducted its sixth national population census in 2010,[14][15] and its seventh census was completed in late 2020, with data released in May 2021.[16]
China faces the challenge of an aging population due to increased life expectancy and declining birth rates.[17] This demographic shift has implications for social services and the labor force.[17]
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