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

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

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

What is not included in this page

References

  1. Xiaogang, He. "The Evolution of Population Census Undertakings in China, 1953–2010". China Review. 15: 171–206. Archived from the original on 3 June 2024. Retrieved 3 March 2021.
  2. Kaufman, Joan (March 2011). "China Case Study on UNFPA" (PDF). Center for Global Development. p. 19. Archived (PDF) from the original on 26 December 2020.
  3. "The U.S. Census Bureau - China". www.census.gov. Archived from the original on 5 September 2015. Retrieved 2021-04-21.
  4. 孙中山与辛亥革命时期的“五族共和”
  5. Coy, Peter (August 28, 2023). "The Scientist Who Foresaw China's Stagnation". The New York Times. Archived from the original on 2023-08-28. Retrieved 2023-12-19.
  6. Yi, Fuxian (August 22, 2023). "China's Population-Control Disaster". Project Syndicate. Retrieved 2023-12-19.