(Source:http://www.emerald-empire/geography/china/states/page00.htm#SEC2)

Location: Northeastern Asia, South of the former USSR.

Population: 1,203,097,268 (July 1995 est.)

Total Fertility Rate: 1.84 children born/woman (1995 est.)

Population Growth Rate: 1.04% (1995 est.)

Birth Rate: 17.78 births/1,000 (1995 est.)

Death Rate: 7.36 deaths/1,000 (1995 est.)

Life expectancy:

• total population: 68.08 years
• male: 67.09 years
• female: 69.18 years (1995 est.)

Ethnic Divisions:

• Han Chinese 91.9%
• Zhuang, Uygur, Hui, Yi, Tibetan, Miao, Manchu, Mongol, Buyi, Korean and other nationalities 8.1%

Religions:

• Daoism (Taoism)
• Buddism
• Muslim 2%-3%
• Christians 1%
• note: officially atheist, but traditionally pragmatic and eclectic

Literacy: Age 15 and over can read and write (1990)

• Total population: 78%
• Male: 87%
• Femal: 68%

Labor Force: 583.6 million (1991)

• By occupation:
• agriculture and forestry 60%
• Industry and comerce 25%
• Construction and mining 5%
• Social services 5%
• Other 5%

Grain Consumption per person (kg):

• India: 186
• China: 292
• USA: 860
• Canada: 974
• (Source:State of the World, 1994)

For more of a general overview of China click Bibliography Homepage Brief Chinese history

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