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All
about China-- Demographical factors affecting market segmentation, targeting, positioning, and marketing campaign in China
| Population: |
1,321,851,888 (July 2007 est.)
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| Age
structure: |
0-14 years: 20.4% (male 143,527,634; female 126,607,344); 15-64 years: 71.7% (male 487,079,770; female 460,596,384); 65 years and over: 7.9% (male 49,683,856; female 54,356,900) (2007 est.) |
| Median
age: |
Total:
33.2 years; male: 32.7 years; female: 33.7 years (2007 est.) |
| Population
growth rate: |
0.606% (2007 est.) |
| Birth
rate: |
13.45
births/1,000 population (2007 est.) |
| Death
rate: |
7-deaths/1,000
population (2007 est.) |
| Net
migration rate: |
-0.39
migrant(s)/1,000 population (2007
est.).) |
| Life
expectancy at birth: |
Total
population: 72.58 years; male: 70.89
years; female: 74.46 years (2007 est.) |
| Total
fertility rate: |
1.75
children born/woman (2007 est.) |
| Nationality: |
Noun:
Chinese (singular and plural) adjective:
Chinese |
| Ethnic
groups: |
Han
Chinese 91.9%, Zhuang, Uygur, Hui,
Yi, Tibetan, Miao, Manchu, Mongol,
Buyi, Korean, and other nationalities
8.1% |
| Religions: |
Official
figures: 18 million Muslims, 4 million
Roman Catholics, 10 million Protestants |
| Languages: |
Standard
Chinese or Mandarin (Putonghua, based
on the Beijing dialect), Yue (Cantonese),
Wu (Shanghaiese), Minbei (Fuzhou),
Minnan (Hokkien-Taiwanese), Xiang,
Gan, Hakka dialects, minority languages
(see Ethnic groups entry)
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Literacy: |
Definition:
age 15 and over can read and write
total population: 86% male: 92.9%
female: 78.8% (2003 est.) |
(Source
from CIA The World Factbook)
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