China's Population Increased By 5.3Mln To 1.395Bln People In 2018 - Statistics Bureau
Sumaira FH Published January 21, 2019 | 10:00 AM
BEIJING (UrduPoint News / Sputnik - 21st January, 2019) The population of China (excluding the special administrative regions of Hong Kong, Macao and Taiwan) increased by 5.3 million last year to 1.395 billion people as of the end of 2018, the country's National Bureau of Statistics (NBS) reported on Monday.
In 2017, China's population increased by 7.37 million people.
In 2018, 15.
23 million newborns were registered in the country, and the birth rate was 10.94 per thousand people. During the same year, 9.93 million people died in China, and the death rate was 7.13 per thousand.
Thus, natural population growth was 3.81 per thousand people.
China's male population was 713.51 million, while female population was 681.87 million, as of the end of 2018.
The total number of the working-age population between ages of 16 and 59 has decreased to 897.29 million from 901.99 million people in 2017.
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