| Population change by region, 1998 | ||||
| (10 000 persons,‰) | ||||
| Region | Total | Crude | Crude | Natural |
| population | birth | death | increase | |
| (end-year) | rate | rate | rate | |
| National | 124810 | 16.03 | 6.50 | 9.53 |
| Beijing | 1246 | 6.00 | 5.30 | 0.70 |
| Tianjin | 957 | 9.89 | 6.49 | 3.40 |
| Hebei | 6569 | 13.01 | 6.18 | 6.83 |
| Shanxi | 3172 | 16.09 | 6.17 | 9.92 |
| Inner Mongolia | 2345 | 14.40 | 6.17 | 8.23 |
| Liaoning | 4157 | 11.39 | 6.81 | 4.58 |
| Jilin | 2644 | 11.81 | 5.76 | 6.05 |
| Heilongjiang | 3773 | 11.68 | 5.32 | 6.36 |
| Shanghai | 1464 | 5.20 | 7.00 | -1.80 |
| Jiangsu | 7182 | 10.97 | 6.84 | 4.13 |
| Zhejiang | 4456 | 11.15 | 6.33 | 4.82 |
| Anhui | 6184 | 15.74 | 6.54 | 9.20 |
| Fujian | 3299 | 11.53 | 6.20 | 5.33 |
| Jiangxi | 4191 | 16.85 | 7.05 | 9.80 |
| Shandong | 8838 | 11.58 | 6.12 | 5.46 |
| Henan | 9315 | 14.17 | 6.37 | 7.80 |
| Hubei | 5907 | 12.58 | 6.70 | 5.88 |
| Hunan | 6502 | 12.31 | 7.10 | 5.21 |
| Guangdong | 7143 | 16.51 | 5.61 | 10.90 |
| Guangxi | 4675 | 15.87 | 6.86 | 9.01 |
| Hainan | 753 | 18.48 | 5.56 | 12.92 |
| Zhongqing | 3060 | 13.19 | 7.68 | 5.51 |
| Sichuan | 8493 | 14.62 | 7.14 | 7.48 |
| Guizhou | 3658 | 22.02 | 7.76 | 14.26 |
| Yunnan | 4144 | 20.01 | 7.91 | 12.10 |
| Tibet | 252 | 23.70 | 7.80 | 15.90 |
| Shaanxi | 3596 | 13.56 | 6.43 | 7.13 |
| Gansu | 2519 | 16.45 | 6.41 | 10.04 |
| Qinghai | 503 | 21.26 | 6.78 | 14.48 |
| Ningxia | 538 | 18.19 | 5.11 | 13.08 |
| Xinjing | 1747 | 19.74 | 6.93 | 12.81 |
| Source: National Bureau of Statistics, P.R.China, | ||||
| China Statistical Yearbook 1999. | ||||