Sixth National Population Census of the People's Republic of China


The Sixth National Population Census of the People's Republic of China, also referred to as the 2010 Chinese Census, was conducted by the National Bureau of Statistics of the People's Republic of China with a zero hour of November 1, 2010.

Census procedure

Census procedure was governed by the Regulations on National Population Census and the Circular of the State Council on the Conduct of the 6th National Population Census. The census cost 700 million RMB.

Results

The main findings of the census were published on April 28, 2011.

Total population

It found the total population of Mainland China to be 1,339,724,852 persons, an increase of 73,899,804 persons from the previous census conducted in 2000. This represented a growth rate of 5.84% over the decade, and an average annual growth rate of 0.57%. The population undercount rate of the census was estimated at 0.12%. The census also listed the population of Hong Kong Special Administrative Region as 7,097,600 persons, the population of Macau Special Administrative Region as 552,300 persons, and the population of Taiwan as 23,162,123 persons.

Population composition and demographics

The census found a total of 401,517,330 family households in Mainland China, with an average of 3.10 persons per household, a decrease of 0.34 persons from the 2000 census. 51.27% of the population is male, and 48.73% is female, giving a male to female ratio of 105.20 men for every 100 women, a decrease from the 2000 figure of 106.74. 49.68% of the population resided in urban areas, and 50.32% resided in rural areas, an increase of 13.46% in the proportion of the urban population. 261,386,075 people had lived in a place different from their household registration for at least six months, with 221,426,652 of these living in a different city from their registration.
16.60% of the population was aged 0–14, 70.14% was aged 15–59, and 13.26% were aged 60 or over. This represented a decrease of 6.29% in the share of the population in the youngest age group, and increases of 3.36% and 2.93% for the 15-59 and 60+ shares, respectively. 91.51% of the population was of the Han Chinese nationality, and 8.49% was of other ethnic groups. The Han population increased by 5.74%, and the population of other groups increased by a combined 6.92%.
NameProvincePopulation
HefeiAnhui5,702,000
AnqingAnhui5,311,000
BengbuAnhui3,164,000
BozhouAnhui4,851,000
ChizhouAnhui1,403,000
ChuzhouAnhui3,938,000
FuyangAnhui7,600,000
HuaibeiAnhui2,114,000
HuainanAnhui2,334,000
HuangshanAnhui1,359,000
Lu'anAnhui5,612,000
Ma'anshanAnhui1,366,000
Suzhou, AnhuiAnhui5,353,000
TonglingAnhui724,000
WuhuAnhui2,263,000
XuanchengAnhui2,533,000
Fuzhou, FujianFujian7,115,370
XiamenFujian3,531,347
LongyanFujian2,559,545
NanpingFujian2,645,549
NingdeFujian2,821,996
PutianFujian2,778,508
QuanzhouFujian8,128,530
SanmingFujian2,503,388
ZhangzhouFujian4,809,983
JiuquanGansu1,095,947
JiayuguanGansu231,853
ZhangyeGansu1,199,515
JinchangGansu464,050
WuweiGansu1,815,054
BaiyinGansu1,708,751
LanzhouGansu3,616,163
LinxiaGansu1,946,677
GannanGansu689,132
DingxiGansu2,698,622
LongnanGansu2,567,718
TianshuiGansu3,262,548
PingliangGansu2,068,033
QingyangGansu2,211,191
QingyuanGuangdong3,698,394
ShaoguanGuangdong2,826,612
HeyuanGuangdong2,953,019
MeizhouGuangdong4,240,139
ChaozhouGuangdong2,669,844
ZhaoqingGuangdong3,918,085
YunfuGuangdong2,360,128
FoshanGuangdong7,194,311
GuangzhouGuangdong12,700,800
DongguanGuangdong8,220,237
HuizhouGuangdong4,597,002
ShanweiGuangdong2,935,717
JieyangGuangdong5,877,025
ShantouGuangdong5,391,028
ZhanjiangGuangdong6,993,304
MaomingGuangdong5,817,753
YangjiangGuangdong2,421,812
JiangmenGuangdong4,448,871
ZhongshanGuangdong3,120,884
ZhuhaiGuangdong1,560,229
ShenzhenGuangdong10,357,938
BaiseGuangxi3,466,800
HechiGuangxi3,369,200
LiuzhouGuangxi3,758,700
GuilinGuangxi4,748,000
HezhouGuangxi1,954,100
ChongzuoGuangxi1,994,300
NanningGuangxi6,661,600
LaibinGuangxi2,099,700
GuigangGuangxi4,118,800
WuzhouGuangxi2,882,200
FangchenggangGuangxi866,900
QinzhouGuangxi3,079,700
BeihaiGuangxi1,539,300
Yulin, GuangxiGuangxi5,487,400
BijieGuizhou6,536,370
ZunyiGuizhou6,127,009
TongrenGuizhou3,092,365
LiupanshuiGuizhou2,851,180
AnshunGuizhou2,297,339
GuiyangGuizhou4,324,561
QianxinanGuizhou2,805,857
QiannanGuizhou3,231,161
QiandongnanGuizhou3,480,626
HaikouHainan2,046,189
SanyaHainan685,408
SanshaHainan444
ShijiazhuangHebei10,163,788
BaodingHebei11,194,379
CangzhouHebei7,134,053
ChengdeHebei3,473,197
HandanHebei9,174,679
HengshuiHebei4,340,773
LangfangHebei4,358,839
QinhuangdaoHebei2,987,605
TangshanHebei7,577,284
XingtaiHebei7,104,114
ZhangjiakouHebei4,345,491
HarbinHeilongjiang10,635,971
DaqingHeilongjiang2,904,532
HegangHeilongjiang1,058,665
HeiheHeilongjiang1,673,898
JiamusiHeilongjiang2,552,097
JixiHeilongjiang1,862,161
MudanjiangHeilongjiang2,798,723
QiqiharHeilongjiang5,367,003
QitaiheHeilongjiang920,419
ShuangyashanHeilongjiang1,462,626
SuihuaHeilongjiang5,416,439
Yichun, HeilongjiangHeilongjiang1,148,126
Daxing'anlingHeilongjiang511,564
ZhengzhouHenan8,626,505
AnyangHenan5,172,834
HebiHenan1,569,100
JiaozuoHenan3,539,860
KaifengHenan4,676,159
LuoheHenan2,544,103
LuoyangHenan6,549,486
NanyangHenan10,263,006
PingdingshanHenan4,904,367
PuyangHenan3,598,494
SanmenxiaHenan2,233,872
ShangqiuHenan7,362,472
XinxiangHenan5,707,801
XinyangHenan6,108,683
XuchangHenan4,307,199
ZhoukouHenan8,953,172
ZhumadianHenan7,230,744
WuhanHubei9,785,392
EzhouHubei1,048,672
HuanggangHubei6,162,072
HuangshiHubei2,429,318
JingmenHubei2,873,687
JingzhouHubei5,691,707
ShiyanHubei3,340,843
SuizhouHubei2,162,222
XiangyangHubei5,500,307
XianningHubei2,462,583
XiaoganHubei4,814,542
YichangHubei4,059,686
EnshiHubei3,290,294
ChangshaHunan7,044,118
ChangdeHunan5,747,218
ChenzhouHunan4,581,778
HengyangHunan7,141,462
HuaihuaHunan4,741,948
LoudiHunan3,785,627
ShaoyangHunan7,071,826
XiangtanHunan2,748,552
YiyangHunan4,313,084
YongzhouHunan5,180,235
YueyangHunan5,477,911
ZhangjiajieHunan1,476,521
ZhuzhouHunan3,855,609
XiangxiHunan2,547,833
AlxaInner Mongolia231,334
BayannurInner Mongolia1,669,915
WuhaiInner Mongolia532,902
OrdosInner Mongolia1,940,653
BaotouInner Mongolia2,650,364
HohhotInner Mongolia2,866,615
UlanqabInner Mongolia2,143,590
XilingolInner Mongolia1,028,022
ChifengInner Mongolia4,341,245
TongliaoInner Mongolia3,139,153
HingganInner Mongolia1,613,250
HulunbuirInner Mongolia2,549,278
NanjingJiangsu8,004,680
ChangzhouJiangsu4,591,972
Huai'anJiangsu4,799,889
LianyungangJiangsu4,393,914
NantongJiangsu7,282,835
SuqianJiangsu4,715,553
Suzhou, JiangsuJiangsu10,465,994
Taizhou, JiangsuJiangsu4,618,558
WuxiJiangsu6,372,624
XuzhouJiangsu8,580,500
YanchengJiangsu7,260,240
YangzhouJiangsu4,459,760
ZhenjiangJiangsu3,113,384
NanchangJiangxi5,042,565
Fuzhou, JiangxiJiangxi3,912,312
GanzhouJiangxi8,368,440
Ji'anJiangxi4,810,340
JingdezhenJiangxi1,587,477
JiujiangJiangxi4,728,763
PingxiangJiangxi1,854,510
ShangraoJiangxi6,579,714
XinyuJiangxi1,138,873
Yichun, JiangxiJiangxi5,419,575
YingtanJiangxi1,124,906
ChangchunJilin7,677,089
BaichengJilin2,033,058
BaishanJilin1,296,575
JilinJilin4,414,681
LiaoyuanJilin1,176,645
SipingJilin3,386,325
SongyuanJilin2,881,082
TonghuaJilin2,325,242
YanbianJilin2,271,600
ShenyangLiaoning8,106,171
DalianLiaoning6,690,432
AnshanLiaoning3,645,884
BenxiLiaoning1,709,538
ChaoyangLiaoning3,044,641
DandongLiaoning2,444,697
FushunLiaoning2,138,090
FuxinLiaoning1,819,339
HuludaoLiaoning2,623,541
JinzhouLiaoning3,126,463
LiaoyangLiaoning1,858,768
PanjinLiaoning1,392,493
TielingLiaoning2,717,732
YingkouLiaoning2,428,534
YinchuanNingxia1,993,088
ShizuishanNingxia725,482
WuzhongNingxia1,273,792
ZhongweiNingxia1,080,832
GuyuanNingxia1,228,156
HaixiQinghai489,338
HaibeiQinghai273,304
XiningQinghai2,208,708
HaidongQinghai1,396,846
HainanQinghai441,689
HuangnanQinghai256,716
YushuQinghai378,439
GologQinghai181,682
Xi'anShaanxi8,467,837
AnkangShaanxi2,629,906
BaojiShaanxi3,716,731
HanzhongShaanxi3,416,196
ShangluoShaanxi2,341,742
TongchuanShaanxi834,437
WeinanShaanxi5,286,077
XianyangShaanxi4,894,834
Yan'anShaanxi2,187,009
Yulin, ShaanxiShaanxi3,351,437
JinanShandong6,814,000
QingdaoShandong8,715,100
BinzhouShandong3,748,500
DezhouShandong5,568,200
DongyingShandong2,035,300
HezeShandong8,287,800
JiningShandong8,081,900
LaiwuShandong1,298,500
LiaochengShandong5,789,900
LinyiShandong10,039,400
RizhaoShandong2,801,100
Tai'anShandong5,494,200
WeifangShandong9,086,200
WeihaiShandong2,804,800
YantaiShandong6,968,200
ZaozhuangShandong3,729,300
ZiboShandong4,530,600
TaiyuanShanxi4,201,591
ChangzhiShanxi3,334,564
DatongShanxi3,318,057
JinchengShanxi2,279,151
JinzhongShanxi3,249,425
LinfenShanxi4,316,612
LüliangShanxi3,727,057
ShuozhouShanxi1,714,857
XinzhouShanxi3,067,501
YangquanShanxi1,368,502
YunchengShanxi5,134,794
GarzêSichuan1,091,872
NgawaSichuan898,713
MianyangSichuan4,613,862
GuangyuanSichuan2,484,123
NanchongSichuan6,278,622
BazhongSichuan3,283,771
DazhouSichuan5,468,092
Ya'anSichuan1,507,264
ChengduSichuan14,047,625
DeyangSichuan3,615,759
SuiningSichuan3,252,551
Guang'anSichuan3,205,476
MeishanSichuan2,950,548
ZiyangSichuan3,665,064
LeshanSichuan3,235,756
NeijiangSichuan3,702,847
ZigongSichuan2,678,898
YibinSichuan4,472,001
LuzhouSichuan4,218,426
LiangshanSichuan4,532,809
PanzhihuaSichuan1,214,121
NgariTibet95,465
Nagqu PrefectureTibet462,382
Qamdo PrefectureTibet657,505
Xigazê PrefectureTibet703,292
LhasaTibet559,423
Lhoka/Shannan PrefectureTibet328,990
Nyingchi PrefectureTibet195,109
AltayXinjiang603,280
BortalaXinjiang443,680
TachengXinjiang1,219,212
KaramayXinjiang391,008
ChangjiXinjiang1,428,592
ÜrümqiÜrümqiXinjiang3,110,280
TurpanXinjiang622,679
KumulXinjiang572,400
IliXinjiang2,482,627
KizilsuXinjiang525,599
KashgarXinjiang3,979,362
AksuXinjiang2,370,887
HotanXinjiang2,014,365
BayingolinXinjiang1,278,492
KunmingYunnan6,432,000
QujingYunnan5,855,000
YuxiYunnan2,304,000
BaoshanYunnan2,506,000
ZhaotongYunnan5,213,000
LijiangYunnan1,245,000
Pu'erYunnan2,543,000
LincangYunnan2,430,000
DehongYunnan1,211,000
NujiangYunnan534,000
DêqênYunnan400,000
DaliYunnan3,456,000
ChuxiongYunnan2,684,000
HongheYunnan4,501,000
WenshanYunnan3,518,000
XishuangbannaYunnan1,134,000
HangzhouZhejiang8,700,400
NingboZhejiang7,605,700
HuzhouZhejiang2,893,500
JiaxingZhejiang4,501,700
JinhuaZhejiang5,361,600
LishuiZhejiang2,117,000
QuzhouZhejiang2,122,700
ShaoxingZhejiang4,912,200
Taizhou, ZhejiangZhejiang5,968,800
WenzhouZhejiang9,122,100
ZhoushanZhejiang1,121,300

Educational attainment

The census found that, in Mainland China, 119,636,790 people had completed higher education, 187,985,979 had completed only senior secondary education, 519,656,445 had completed only junior secondary education, 358,764,003 had completed only primary education, and 54,656,573 were illiterate. Since 2000, out of every 100,000 people, the number with higher education has increased from 3,611 to 8,930, the number with senior secondary education has increased from 11,146 to 14,032, the number with junior secondary education increased from 33,961 to 38,788, and the number of people with only primary education decreased from 35,701 to 26,779. The illiteracy rate declined from 6.72% to 4.08%.
Administrative
region
Completed
higher
education
Completed
higher
education
For every
100,000
people
higher
education
Completed
senior
secondary
education
Some
senior
secondary
education
Completed
senior
secondary
education
Completed
junior
secondary
education
Some
junior
secondary
education
Completed
junior
secondary
education
Completed
primary
education
Some
primary
education
Completed
primary
education
Illiterate
Illiterate
Illiteracy
rate
National total119,6378.938,930187,98614.0322.96519,65638.7961.75358,76426.7888.5354,6574.084.89
Beijing6,17831.5031,5014,16221.2252.726,15731.3984.121,9539.9694.073331.701.86
Shanghai5,05321.9521,9524,82620.9742.928,39336.4679.383,11613.5492.916312.743.00
Tianjin2,26217.4817,4802,67220.6538.134,93638.1576.282,20617.0593.332712.102.33
Liaoning5,23411.9611,9656,46914.7926.7519,82945.3372.089,36521.4193.498441.932.18
Jiangsu8,50710.8110,81512,69816.1426.9630,41838.6765.6319,01724.1889.802,9953.814.38
Xinjiang2,32010.6410,6352,52611.5822.227,87436.1058.316,56030.0888.395162.362.98
Shaanxi3,94010.5610,5565,88815.7726.3314,98140.1466.468,74123.4289.881,3983.744.39
Inner Mongolia2,52210.2110,2083,73715.1325.339,68939.2264.556,28025.4289.971,0054.074.74
Jilin2,7169.899,8904,63216.8726.7611,55342.0768.836,60724.0692.885271.922.18
Hubei5,4569.539,5339,50216.6026.1322,67639.6265.7513,09122.8788.622,6194.585.31
Zhejiang5,0789.339,3307,38113.5622.8919,96436.6859.5715,68528.8288.393,0615.626.48
Ningxia5779.159,15278512.4521.602,12133.6555.261,87929.8385.083926.227.92
Heilongjiang3,4749.079,0675,74314.9924.0617,27245.0869.149,22524.0893.227882.062.34
Shanxi3,1148.728,7215,61915.7324.4516,11545.1369.587,80521.8591.437622.132.57
Shandong8,3298.698,69413,32313.9122.6038,46840.1662.7623,91224.9687.724,7574.975.89
Chongqing2,4938.648,6423,81113.2121.869,51432.9854.849,74733.7988.631,2394.305.17
Qinghai4858.628,61658710.4319.041,42825.3744.421,98435.2779.6857610.2312.94
Fujian3,0858.368,3615,11913.8822.2413,97837.8960.1210,99529.8089.929002.442.89
Guangdong8,5678.218,21417,80717.0725.2944,76042.9168.2023,94422.9691.162,0421.962.36
Hainan6747.777,7681,27214.6722.433,62041.7464.171,97222.7486.913544.085.11
Hunan4,9897.597,59510,12915.4223.0125,96339.5362.5417,59426.7989.331,7542.673.24
Gansu1,9237.527,5203,24512.6920.217,98331.2151.428,31332.5083.922,2238.6910.62
Hebei5,2437.307,2969,13212.7120.0031,90344.4064.4017,72024.6689.061,8772.613.14
Jiangxi3,0526.856,8475,49312.3319.1716,84237.7956.9613,37330.0186.971,3943.134.00
Anhui3,9856.706,6976,41010.7717.4722,61938.0155.4916,62927.9583.434,9658.3410.17
Sichuan5,3686.686,6759,04511.2517.9228,05734.8952.8127,84734.6387.444,3775.446.56
Henan6,0166.406,39812,42313.2119.6139,92342.4662.0722,66824.1186.183,9914.255.37
Guangxi2,7515.985,9785,07911.0317.0117,84238.7655.7814,58131.6887.451,2492.713.47
Yunnan2,6565.785,7783,8508.3814.1512,63127.4841.6319,94443.3985.022,7706.037.60
Tibet1655.515,5071314.369.8738612.8522.721,09836.5959.31
Guizhou1,8395.295,2922,5307.2812.5710,35129.7942.3613,68139.3781.743,0398.7411.69

Population distribution


Rank
Administrative region
Population as of
2000 Census
Population as of
2010 Census
Numerical change
Proportion
2000 Census
Proportion
2010 Census
1Guangdong85,225,007104,303,13219,078,1256.83%7.79%
2Shandong89,971,78995,793,0655,821,2767.17%7.15%
3Henan91,236,85494,023,5672,786,7137.31%7.02%
4Sichuan82,348,29680,418,2001,930,0966.58%6.00%
5Jiangsu73,043,57778,659,9035,616,3265.88%5.87%
6Hebei66,684,41971,854,2025,169,7835.33%5.36%
7Hunan63,274,17365,683,7222,409,5495.09%4.90%
8Anhui58,999,94859,500,510500,5624.73%4.44%
9Hubei59,508,87057,237,7402,271,1304.76%4.27%
10Zhejiang45,930,65154,426,8918,496,2403.69%4.06%
11Guangxi43,854,53846,026,6292,172,0913.55%3.44%
12Yunnan42,360,08945,966,2393,606,1503.39%3.43%
13Jiangxi40,397,59844,567,4754,169,8773.27%3.33%
14Liaoning41,824,41243,746,3231,921,9113.35%3.27%
15Heilongjiang36,237,57638,312,2242,074,6482.91%2.86%
16Shaanxi35,365,07237,327,3781,962,3062.85%2.79%
17Fujian34,097,94736,894,2162,796,2692.74%2.75%
18Shanxi32,471,24235,712,1113,240,8692.60%2.67%
19Guizhou35,247,69534,746,468501,2272.78%2.59%
20Chongqing30,512,76328,846,1701,666,5932.44%2.15%
21Jilin26,802,19127,462,297660,1062.16%2.05%
22Gansu25,124,28225,575,254450,9722.02%1.91%
23Inner Mongolia23,323,34724,706,3211,382,9741.88%1.84%
24Shanghai16,407,73423,019,1486,611,4141.32%1.72%
25Xinjiang18,459,51121,813,3343,353,8231.52%1.63%
26Beijing13,569,19419,612,3686,043,1741.09%1.46%
27Tianjin9,848,73112,938,2243,089,4930.79%0.97%
28Hainan7,559,0358,671,5181,112,4830.62%0.65%
29Ningxia5,486,3936,301,350814,9570.44%0.47%
30Qinghai4,822,9635,626,722803,7590.41%0.42%
31Tibet2,616,3293,002,166385,8370.21%0.22%
Military2,498,6002,300,000198,600
Residence Difficult to Determine4,649,985
National total 1,245,110,8261,339,724,85294,614,026100%100%
*Hong Kong S.A.R.6,708,3897,061,200352,811
*Macau S.A.R.431,500552,300120,800
*Taiwan Area22,276,67223,162,123885,451

Foreign nationals and residents of Hong Kong, Macau and Taiwan

The census also recorded 593,832 foreign nationals, 234,829 residents of Hong Kong SAR, 21,201 residents of Macau SAR, and 170,283 residents of Taiwan residing in Mainland China, a total of 1,020,145 additional persons. 605,821 of these were male, and 414,324 were female. Of the foreign nationals, 120,750 were from the Republic of Korea, 71,493 were from the United States, 66,159 were from Japan, 39,776 were from Myanmar, 36,205 were from Vietnam, 19,990 were from Canada, 15,087 were from France, 15,051 were from India, 14,446 were from Germany, and 13,286 were from Australia. The remaining 181,589 were from other countries.

Naturalisation

According to The Economist, China had only 1,448 naturalised Chinese in total at the 2010 census.