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China

1,406,585,000

Latest official population · 2025

Annual change-2.39M2024 to 2025
Growth since 2000+11.4%from 1.26B
Life expectancy78.0 years2024
Fertility rate1.01births per woman · 2024
Urban population66.3%2025
RegionEast Asia & PacificUpper middle income

A country at every age

How China is shaped by age.

Most people are in the working ages, with the younger and older generations shaping what comes next.

Latest shared source year: 2025
Ages 0–1415.4%Children and early teens
Ages 15–6469.7%Working-age population
Ages 65+14.9%Older population

The population pulse

How the population changes.

Births and deaths show natural change. Migration shows how movement across borders also changes the population.

Birth rate6.8births per 1,000 · 2024
Death rate7.8deaths per 1,000 · 2024
Natural balance-1.0births minus deaths per 1,000
Net migration-268.13Knet people estimate · 2025

UN medium projection

What could China look like in 2050?

If current demographic patterns evolve along the UN's medium scenario, the population could be 1.26B in 2050—11.2% smaller than the 2024 UN estimate.

A projection is a scenario, not a prediction or live count.
  1. 20241.42B
  2. 20501.26B
  3. 2100633.37M
Median age in 205052.1years
Births in 20507.37Mduring the year
Deaths in 205017.53Mduring the year
Life expectancy83.4years in 2050

Long view

Population through time

Official World Bank annual observations, shown at decade intervals with the latest published year.

  1. 1960667.07M
  2. 1970818.32M
  3. 1980981.24M
  4. 19901.14B
  5. 20001.26B
  6. 20101.34B
  7. 20201.41B
  8. 20251.41B
SourceWorld Bank Open DataPopulation total · SP.POP.TOTL
Latest population year2025Official annual observation
Future sourceUN WPP 2024Medium projection · 2024–2100
DeliveryReliable snapshotChecked 9/22/2026

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