Resident Population, Year-end

(ten thousand persons)

Guangdong is the top region by population in China. As of 2021, population in Guangdong was 12,684 ten thousand persons that accounts for 8.99% of China's population. The top 5 regions (others are Shandong, Henan, Jiangsu, and Sichuan) account for 35.17% of it. China's total population was estimated at 141,060 ten thousand persons in 2021.

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What is population?

Resident population refers to the total number of people alive at a certain point of time within a given area. The annual statistics on resident population is taken at midnight, the 3lst of December, not including residents in Taiwan province, Hong Kong SAR and Macao SAR and Chinese national residing abroad.

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