China ’s population in 2022 has decreased by 850,000. Since 1962, 1962For the first time, it has grown negatively.

The data released by the National Bureau of Statistics of China on Tuesday (January 17) shows that the population of the national population (including 31 provinces, autonomous regions, municipalities and active soldiers at the end of 2022 does not include living in 31 provinces, and in 31 provinces,Hong Kong, Macao and Taiwan residents and foreigners in the autonomous region and municipalities) were 1,411.75 million, a decrease of 850,000 from the end of the previous year.

At the press conference held by the National Bureau of Statistics of China on the morning of the 17th at the press conference held by the State Council on the 17th, the national economic operation was introduced in 2022, and the above data was notified.

According to him, the birth of the year in China is 9.56 million, with a population birth rate of 6.77%; the death population is 10.41 million, and the population mortality rate is 7.37%; the natural growth rate is -0.60%.

From the perspective of gender composition, the male population is 72.206 million, the female population is 68.969 million, and the total population ratio is 104.69 (with women 100).

From the perspective of age composition, the labor age population 16 to 59 is 87.556 million, accounting for 62.0%of the national population;The population of 65 and above was 20.978 million, accounting for 14.9%of the national population.

From the perspective of urban and rural composition, the urban resident population is 920.71 million, an increase of 6.46 million from the end of the previous year; the resident population of the country is 4.914 million, a decrease of 7.31 million;It was 65.22%, an increase of 0.50 percentage points over the end of the previous year.

According to the first financial and economic combing, this is the first negative growth in the Chinese population since 1962.

According to AFP, the last negative growth of the Chinese population was in 1960, during the severe famine caused by the Great Leap Forward.

As early as April 2021, the British Financial Times reported that the Chinese population will have a negative growth for the first time in 60 years.Because of the serious famine caused by the Great Leap Forward in the 1950s, tens of millions of people died.

The National Bureau of Statistics of China issued a statement on the official website on April 29 of the same year. It is understood that in 2020, the Chinese population continues to grow, and the specific data will be released in the seventh national census bulletin.

The seventh national population census bulletin was released in May 2021. Ning Jizhen, then the director of the National Bureau of Statistics of China, notified, a total of 1411.78 million people across the country, and 2010 (the sixth national population in 2010 (the sixth national population,Compared with the survey data), the 13.3972 million people increased by 72.06 million, an increase of 5.38%, with an average annual growth rate of 0.53%, a decrease of 0.04 percentage points from the average annual growth rate of 0.57%from 2000 to 2010.Data show that China's population has continued to maintain low -speed growth in the past 10 years.