The Chinese population decreased by 2.08 million in the second consecutive year compar

The official data shows that the Chinese population fell again last year.At the end of 2023, the country's population decreased by 2.08 million compared with the end of the previous year to 1.4967 million.

According to the data released by the National Bureau of Statistics of China on Wednesday (January 17), as of the end of 2023, the population of 14.967 million people across the country decreased by 2.08 million from the end of the previous year.

This data includes the population of 31 provinces, autonomous regions, municipalities and active soldiers, excluding Hong Kong, Macao and Taiwan residents and foreign personnel who live in 31 provinces, autonomous regions, and municipalities.

In 2023, the birth population was 9.02 million, and the population birth rate was 6.39 ‰; the death population was 11.1 million, and the population mortality rate was 7.87 ‰; the natural growth rate was -1.48 ‰.

From the perspective of age composition, the labor age population 16-59 is 86.481 million, accounting for 61.3%of the national population; the population 60 and over 29.697 million people accountThe population of 65 and above was 21.676 million, accounting for 15.4%of the national population.

From the perspective of urban and rural composition, the urban resident population is 93.267 million, an increase of 11.96 million from the end of the previous year; the population of rural residents is 477 million, a decrease of 14.04 million;) It was 66.16%, an increase of 0.94 percentage points over the end of the previous year.

The Chinese population decreased by 850,000 compared with the end of 2021, which started the process of negative population growth.

The National Bureau of Statistics of China announced in January last year that the national population was 1.4175 million at the end of 2022.In 2022, the new population was 9.56 million, and the birth rate was 6.77 ‰.

The former executive vice president of Shanghai Academy of Social Sciences and director of the Institute of Economic Research, and Chief Expert Zuo Xuehuang, the chief expert of the National Self -University and Social Science Fund, pointed out in November last year that the negative growth trend of China's population growthIt may continue until the next century, and the transformation of investment and demand structure of human capital should be accelerated.