Released as follows are the results from the 6th national population census, conducted in 2010, on the geographic distribution of resident population[2]:
Province |
Population
(person) |
Proportion[4] (%) |
2000 |
2010 |
National total[3] |
1,339,724,852 |
100 |
100 |
Beijing Municipality |
19,612,368 |
1.09 |
1.46 |
Tianjin Municipality |
12,938,224 |
0.79 |
0.97 |
Hebei Province |
71,854,202 |
5.33 |
5.36 |
Shanxi Province |
35,712,111 |
2.60 |
2.67 |
Inner Mongolia Autonomous Region |
24,706,321 |
1.88 |
1.84 |
Liaoning Province |
43,746,323 |
3.35 |
3.27 |
Jilin Province |
27,462,297 |
2.16 |
2.05 |
Heilongjiang Province |
38,312,224 |
2.91 |
2.86 |
Shanghai Municipality |
23,019,148 |
1.32 |
1.72 |
Jiangsu Province |
78,659,903 |
5.88 |
5.87 |
Zhejiang Province |
54,426,891 |
3.69 |
4.06 |
Anhui Province |
59,500,510 |
4.73 |
4.44 |
Fujian Province |
36,894,216 |
2.74 |
2.75 |
Jiangxi Province |
44,567,475 |
3.27 |
3.33 |
Shandong Province |
95,793,065 |
7.17 |
7.15 |
Henna Province |
94,023,567 |
7.31 |
7.02 |
Hubei Province |
57,237,740 |
4.76 |
4.27 |
Hunan Province |
65,683,722 |
5.09 |
4.90 |
Guangdong Province |
104,303,132 |
6.83 |
7.79 |
Guangxi Zhuang Autonomous Region |
46,026,629 |
3.55 |
3.44 |
Hainan Province |
8,671,518 |
0.62 |
0.65 |
Chongqing Municipality |
28,846,170 |
2.44 |
2.15 |
Sichuan Province |
80,418,200 |
6.58 |
6.00 |
Guizhou Province |
34,746,468 |
2.78 |
2.59 |
Yunnan Province |
45,966,239 |
3.39 |
3.43 |
Tibet Autonomous Region |
3,002,166 |
0.21 |
0.22 |
Shaanxi Province |
37,327,378 |
2.85 |
2.79 |
Gansu Province |
25,575,254 |
2.02 |
1.91 |
Qinghai Province |
5,626,722 |
0.41 |
0.42 |
Ningxia Hui Autonomous Region |
6,301,350 |
0.44 |
0.47 |
Xinjiang Uygur Autonomous Region |
21,813,334 |
1.52 |
1.63 |
Servicemen |
2,300,000 |
|
|
Population with permanent
residence difficult to define |
4,649,985 |
|
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Notes:
1. All figures in the Communiqué are preliminary results.
2. Resident population of a given town/street include: people living in the current town/street where their household registration is located or with their household registration to be settled; people living in the current town/street and leaving the town/street of their household registration for over 6 months; people leaving the town/street of their household registration for less than 6 months or working or studying overseas, with their household registration located in the current town/street.
3. National total in this table do not include population of Hong Kong Special Administrative Region, Macao Special Administrative Region or Taiwan Area.
4. Refers to the proportion of resident population of all provinces, autonomous regions and municipalities to the national total (including servicemen and population with permanent residence difficult to define).
(Source: www.stats.gov.cn) |