NationMaster - Chinese People statistics

Age structure > 0-14 years	21.4		[159th of 226]
Age structure > 15-64 years	71		[13th of 226]
Age structure > 65 years and over	7.7 %		[85th of 225]
Gender development	0.724		[75th of 141]
Nobel prize laureates	2		[20th of 44]
Population in 2015	1,392,980		[1st of 225]
Projected population growth	7.52%		[104th of 141]
Sex ratio > 15-64 years	1.06		[27th of 223]
Urban population	527,018,000	...	[1st of 195]
Urban population growth > annual %	2.95 annual %	...	[58th of 195]
Urbanization	37		[149th of 204]
Urbanization in 1975	49.5%		[63rd of 164]
Urbanization in 2015	19.4%		[161st of 164]
Women > Adult literacy rate females as a % of males	85		[87th of 144]
Women > Antenatal care coverage %	90		[61st of 133]
Women > Contraceptive prevalence %	87		[2nd of 170]
Women > Life expectancy females as a % of males	106		[97th of 173]
Women > Maternal mortality ratio > reported	53		[91st of 154]
Women > Maternal mortality ratio adjusted	56		[107th of 166]
Women > Skilled attendant at delivery %	76		[108th of 172]

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SOURCES: CIA World Factbook, 28 July 2005; CIA World Factbook, 22 August 2006 ; Human Development Reports, United Nations 2002; The Nobel Foundation; Population Division of the Department of Economic and Social Affairs of the United Nations Secretariat, World Population Prospects: The 2004 Revision and World Urbanization Prospects: http://esa.un.org/unpp; Population Reference Bureau, 2001 World Population Data Sheet, Washington, DC: PRB, 2001. via ciesin.org; World Development Indicators database; Population Division of the United Nations Secretariat, World Urbanization Prospects: The 2001 Revision, Data Tables and Highlights (ESA/P/WP.173, 20 March 2002); UN (United Nations). 2002. World Urbanization Prospects: The 2001 Revision. Department of Economic and Social Affairs, Population Division. New York; UNICEF

ALTERNATIVE NAMES: China, People's Republic of China, Zhonghua Renmin Gongheguo, Zhong Guo, China; Peoples Republic of, China, People's Republic, China, People's Rep, China, People's Rep. of, China PR

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