An eighth of the population of China is over the age of 60, and more than half of them live alone.
This means that on average, every year for the next 50 years, the world population will grow by about the number of people that live now in Italy, and total population growth over the next 50 years will be more than twice the size of the current population in China.
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If the magnitude of a domestic market of a country is measured by the size of her population, China is a large resource (labor) and product (consumer) market.
Also, stocks are owned by a much smaller portion of the population in China than the U.S., which means many fewer people feel the wealth effect of a rally.
The minorities population of Yunnan is among the biggest in China.
Its share of the total population accounted for around 70 percent of China.
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On the other side of the world, China's National Bureau of Statistics recently announced that the share of population aged between 15 and 60 years old declined for the first time in 2012.
Liu Zhi, director of the municipal commission for population and family planning, told China Daily on Saturday that the city plans to start extensive research into the characteristics of the urban population.
The introduction of the sweet potato in China helped lead to a population boom.
"Much of the world's population in North America, Europe, most of China and large portions of Russia live near temperate forests, so what happens in these forests has global importance, " said Jerry Franklin, a professor of forest resources at the University of Washington whose work was instrumental in maintaining the research plots.
The IDC reckons that China's online population will be 33 million by the end of 2004, some 35% of the region's wired population.
The Russian Far East is larger than China, but with a population of only 6 million that has shrunk by 12% during the past decade.
Like the U.S., China is expected to have a high population of retirees and a smaller number in the working-age population.
In 1970, around 20% of the population lived in urban centers around China.
Within a generation, the middle class in China will be roughly four times the size of the American middle class population, according to the UN Population Division and Goldman Sachs.
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Siano's Ironi predicts the technology will be as popular in China as it is in Japan, where 10% of the population, or 12 million people, regularly watch mobile TV.
Chongqing, regarded as the gateway to western China, is home to 31 million people - more than 10 times the population of Wales - and an estimated 260, 000 are expected at the Welsh exhibition.
Again, China was only at 1976 U.S. air passenger traffic levels in 2009 (and decades further back as a percentage of the population), and Credit Suisse projects China to reach 1986-1987 U.S. levels, or 432 million people, by 2015.
While the United States widely celebrates Christmas, China is largely non-religious, with over 60% of the population considering themselves agnostic or atheist.
The vast majority of population growth has occurred in developing nations like China and India.
Which accounts for, erm, almost everyone in China, a sizeable proportion of the population of India, and everyone in Spanish-speaking and Russian-speaking countries.
China has the world's biggest population of Internet users, with 564 million people online at the end of 2012, according to an industry group, the China Internet Network Information Center.
The continent's urban population is also projected to exceed that of China and India by 2050, according to U.N. figures.
The population of rich people living in Asia-Pacific, led by China with over 535, 000 millionaires, according to Capgemini, surpassed that of Europe in 2009.
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Is it because China has 22% of the world's population but only 7% of its fresh water?
Where will it go?? China, with about 19% of the world population and currently about a 10% share of consumption could move up to 15%.
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According to the Higher Education Statistics Agency, there were 39, 090 Indian students on UK courses in 2010-11, 13% of the total non-EU student population and second only to China.
Based on the numbers, China, whose 300 million basketball fans almost total the population of the United States, is the most logical place to look.
India has around 400 million young people under the age of 30 that need to have jobs, China has an aging population that needs socialized healthcare and social security.
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