Communiqué of the National Bureau of Statistics of People's Republic of China on Major Figures of the 2010 Population Census[1] (No. 2)

National Bureau of Statistics of China 2011-04-29 10:00 Print| Large| Medium| Small

April 29, 2011

 

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]

1339724852

100

100

Beijing Municipality

19612368

1.09

1.46

Tianjin Municipality

12938224

0.79

0.97

Hebei Province

71854202

5.33

5.36

Shanxi Province

35712111

2.60

2.67

Inner Mongolia

Autonomous Region

24706321

1.88

1.84

Liaoning Province

43746323

3.35

3.27

Jilin Province

27462297

2.16

2.05

Heilongjiang Province

38312224

2.91

2.86

Shanghai Municipality

23019148

1.32

1.72

Jiangsu Province

78659903

5.88

5.87

Zhejiang Province

54426891

3.69

4.06

Anhui Province

59500510

4.73

4.44

Fujian Province

36894216

2.74

2.75

Jiangxi Province

44567475

3.27

3.33

Shandong Province

95793065

7.17

7.15

Henna Province

94023567

7.31

7.02

Hubei Province

57237740

4.76

4.27

Hunan Province

65683722

5.09

4.90

Guangdong Province

104303132

6.83

7.79

Guangxi Zhuang

Autonomous Region

46026629

3.55

3.44

Hainan Province

8671518

0.62

0.65

Chongqing Municipality

28846170

2.44

2.15

Sichuan Province

80418200

6.58

6.00

Guizhou Province

34746468

2.78

2.59

Yunnan Province

45966239

3.39

3.43

Tibet Autonomous

Region

3002166

0.21

0.22

Shaanxi Province

37327378

2.85

2.79

Gansu Province

25575254

2.02

1.91

Qinghai Province

5626722

0.41

0.42

Ningxia Hui

Autonomous Region

6301350

0.44

0.47

Xinjiang Uygur

Autonomous Region

21813334

1.52

1.63

Servicemen

2300000

 

 

Population with permanent

residence difficult to define

4649985

 

 

 

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).