China population

It is estimated since the early 1980s, the number of people in China is over 1,000,000,000.[1][2] People have said for decades that China has the highest population. However, India has more people than China now.[3]

The big five ethnic groups

This sample identity card says that the card holder's ethnicity is Han Chinese (汉). This information is stated after "Name" and "Gender".

During the 1910s, the scholars/ politicians said that there are 5 main groups of people. Han, Manchu, the Mongols, Hui and the Tibetans (漢滿蒙回藏).[4]

the list (in ABC order) (incomplete)

  1. Bai people
  2. Evenks
  3. Han Chinese
  4. Hui people
  5. Inner Mongolia
  6. Kazakhs
  7. Li people
  8. Manchu people
  9. Tajik people
  10. Tibetan people
  11. Uyghur people
  12. Uzbek people
  13. Zhuang people

The number of people

Yi Fuxian (易富贤) believed that, in China, there were 1.28 billion people.

In 2023, the estimated number of people was 1,280,000,000.[5][6]

What is not included in this page

The back of Identity Card (身分證) of a Taiwanese.
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China Population Media

Related pages

References

  1. Xiaogang, He. The Evolution of Population Census Undertakings in China, 1953–2010. China Review 15. p. 171–206. Retrieved 3 March 2021.
  2. Kaufman, Joan. China Case Study on UNFPA. Center for Global Development (March 2011). p. 19.
  3. The U.S. Census Bureau - China. www.census.gov. Retrieved 2021-04-21.
  4. 孙中山与辛亥革命时期的“五族共和”
  5. Coy, Peter. The Scientist Who Foresaw China's Stagnation. The New York Times (August 28, 2023). Retrieved 2023-12-19.
  6. Yi, Fuxian. China's Population-Control Disaster. Project Syndicate (August 22, 2023). Retrieved 2023-12-19.