BEIJING, May 12, 2021 /PRNewswire/ -- This is part of a
transcript, from China SCIO, of the press conference held on
Tuesday about China's latest
population census:
China remains the most populous
country in the world, with the population sustaining its growth
over the past 10 years, according to a press conference
Tuesday.
Ning Jizhe, deputy head of the Leading Group of the State
Council for the Seventh National Population Census and commissioner
of the National Bureau of Statistics, made the following remarks at
the press conference.
With the population sustaining its growth over the past 10
years, China remains the most
populous country in the world.
The country has seen a slowed but steady population growth. Its
population on the mainland reached 1.41 billion in 2020, accounting
for about 18% of the world's total.
The number had leaped from 1.3 billion to 1.4 billion over the
10 years, up by 72.06 million, or an increase of 5.38%. That marked
an average annual growth of 0.53%, slightly lower than 0.57% in the
previous decade.
China's population continues to grow in past decade
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