According to data released by the Chinese National Bureau of Statistics over the weekend, population of working age (15-59) was 937.27 million in 2012, a decrease of 3.45 million over the previous year.

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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.

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Recent Census Bureau statistics show that the population of adult, unmarried women will soon surpass the number of married women.

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