BEIJING, Jan 18 – The total population of the Chinese mainland was 1,409.67 million by the end of 2023, a decrease of 2.08 million compared to the previous year, according to an official on Wednesday.
The annual birth population was 9.02 million, with a birth rate of 0.64 percent; the death population was 11.10 million, with a death rate of 0.79 percent, and the natural population growth rate was minus 0.148 percent, said Kang Yi, director of the National Bureau of Statistics.
In terms of gender composition, the male population was 720.32 million, the female population 689.35 million, and the overall male-female gender ratio 104.49 to 100.
The population aged between 16 and 59 years old was 864.81 million ( 61.3 percent); aged 60 and above (296.97 millio/21.1 per cent, aged 65 and above (216.76 million/15.4 percent).
In terms of urban-rural composition, the urban population was 932.67 million, an increase of 11.96 million while the rural population was 477.00 million, a decrease of 14.04 million.
The urban population’s proportion of the total population (urbanization rate) was 66.16 percent, an increase of 0.94 percentage points compared to the end of the previous year.
