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The Chinese government revealed its census data on Tuesday morning (11; Monday evening in Brazil). The country had 1.411 billion inhabitants in 2020, 72 million more than in 2010.
The census was carried out by the National Department of Statistics. The survey is carried out every ten years, and this edition involved the work of more than 7 million people. The survey was carried out between November and December 2020. Some of the data was collected online, according to the South China Morning Post.
In the last survey, in 2010, the country had 1.339 billion inhabitants. As a result, the average annual growth between 2011 and 2020 was 0.53%. During the previous decade (2000-2010), this rate was 0.57%. The data only includes mainland China, not including Hong Kong, Macao and Taiwan.
China Mocks India’s Coronavirus Dead on Social Media
3 May 2021
A social media account run by the Chinese Communist Party (CCP) mocked India’s deadly coronavirus crisis on Saturday with a post deleted after public outrage in both China and India.
The now-deleted post, depicted below, emanated from the CCP’s Commission for Political and Legal Affairs (CPLA) – one of the most powerful organs of the Party, as it oversees the legal system and law enforcement agencies. The commission’s account on Weibo, China’s tightly-controlled version of Twitter, has 15 million followers. The post was shared by numerous other government and law enforcement social media accounts before it was deleted.
China denies report that population fell last year
Reuters, BEIJING
China’s population grew last year, the National Statistic Bureau said yesterday, in an apparent bid to quash reports that it had fallen, but stopped short of saying from which year numbers had grown.
On Tuesday, the Financial Times said that China was set to report that its population fell below 1.4 billion last year from 2019, in the first decrease in five decades, citing people familiar with the matter.
The bureau has delayed publishing the results of last year’s once-in-a-decade census, with no explanation apart from saying more preparatory work was needed.
China’s births might fall below 10m per year in next five years, expert says
Reuters, BEIJING
China could see its number of births fall to less than 10 million annually in the next five years if the government does not quickly abolish its policy of limiting families to two children, an expert was quoted by media as saying.
China’s total population might also fall in a few years, Guangdong Academy of Population Development director Dong Yuzheng (董玉整) told Yicai, a Chinese financial news outlet.
The number of babies born in China fell by 580,000 to 14.65 million in 2019 and the birthrate of 10.48 per thousand was the lowest since 1949 when present methods of collating data began, the Chinese National Bureau of Statistics said.
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