China Population Pyramid 2017

China
2017
Population: 1,412,354,727

Year

-5 -1   2017  +1 +5

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China in 2017

As of 2017, China counted 1,412,354,727 inhabitants. Over the previous ten years the population grew by 6.5%, up from 1,325,813,581 in 2007. With a median age of 37.4 years, China had a youth dependency ratio of 26.0 and an old-age dependency ratio of 15.5 per 100 people of working age. The near-vertical sides of the pyramid indicate a stationary age structure, with births roughly balancing the passage of cohorts into older age.

Share of the population by age group, 1950–2100

Data source: United Nations World Population Prospects, 2024 revision (medium variant) — last updated July 2024.


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