COMMUNIQUE ON MAJOR FIGURES OF THE 2000 POPULATION CENSUS

(No.2)

NATIONAL BUREAU OF STATISTICS PEOPLE'S REPUPLIC OF CHINA

April 2, 2001

Following are the results from the advance tabulation on the geographic distribution of

population from the fifth national population census of China:

Region

Population (million)

Beijing Municipality

13.82

Tianjin Municipality

10.01

Hebei Province

67.44

Shanxi Province

32.97

Inner Mongolia Autonomous Region

23.76

Liaoning Province

42.38

Jilin Province

27.28

Heilongjiang Province

36.89

Shanghai Municipality

16.74

Jiangsu Province

74.38

Zhejiang Province

46.77

Anhui Province

59.86

Fujian Province

(excluding the population in Jinmen and Mazu and a few other islands)

34.71

Jiangxi Province

41.40

Shandong Province

90.79

Henan Province

92.56

Hubei Province

60.28

Hunan Province

64.40

Guangdong Province

86.42

Guangxi Zhuang Autonomous Region

44.89

Hainan Province

7.87

Chongqing Municipality

30.90

Sichuan Province

83.29

Guizhou Province

35.25

Yunnan Province

42.88

Tibet Autonomous Region

2.62

Shaanxi Province

36.05

Gansu Province

25.62

Qinghai Province

5.18

Ningxia Hui Autonomous Region

5.62

Xinjiang Uygur Autonomous Region

19.25

Hongkong Special Administrative Region

6.78

Macao Special Administrative Region

0.44

Taiwan Province and Jinmen, Mazu and a few other islands of Fujian Province

22.28

Servicemen

2.50

Note:

  1. The population (including immigrants, excluding emigrants) of the 31 provinces, autonomous regions and municipalities of the mainland of China were enumerated at the reference time of zero hour of November 1, 2000.

  2. The difference between the total population on the mainland of China and the sum of population of the 31 provinces, autonomous regions and municipalities and servicemen were the population with their household registration unsettled.

  3. Population of Hong Kong SAR was obtained from data on September 30, 2000, which was provided by Hong Kong SAR government.

  4. Population of Macao SAR was obtained from data on September 30, 2000, which was provided by Macao SAR government.

  5. Population of Taiwan Province, Jinmen, Mazu and a few other islands refers to population at the end of 2000, which was released by the Taiwan authority.