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Population and society
Connect population scale with fertility, aging, employment and household conditions while keeping statistical periods and revisions visible.
Population and urbanization
1,404.89million people · 2025Total fertility rate
1.013births per woman · China · 2024Population aging
14.9%age 65+ share · China · 2025Employment and unemployment
725.04million employed persons · 2025Read together
Related does not mean interchangeable
Population change is not one series. Births, fertility, aging and employment describe different parts of demographic transition, often with different sources, denominators and revision histories.
Related indicators
7 published measures
Population and urbanization
Population and urbanization
China’s population, urbanization and age structure, plus current official birth-rate history and recent natural-year birth counts with revision boundaries explicit.
Employment and unemployment
Employment and unemployment
China's official employment and separate surveyed/registered unemployment series, plus four non-spliced ILOSTAT modelled comparisons across ten economies from 1991 to 2025.
Household savings
Household savings
Survey-based disposable income not consumed, with national, urban and rural trends from 2017 to 2025.
Housing and real estate
Housing and real estate
China's 2011-2025 real-estate investment, construction, sales, completed-but-unsold floorspace and developer funding cycle, plus the December 2025 70-city residential-price snapshot.
Total fertility rate
Total fertility rate
China, World and 14 other major economies from 1960–2024, with a 2.1 approximate replacement reference, East Asia comparison and fixed-set animated ranking.
Population aging
Population aging
China's 1960–2025 population age 65+ share and total, old-age dependency ratio, international comparison and UN WPP 2024 medium projection to 2050.
Marriage registrations
Marriage registrations
China's annual registered marriage couples from 1978 to 2025, with the NBS-to-MCA source boundary explicit and partial 2026 data excluded from the annual trend.
International context
World shares require matching source, year and definition
Use China and the World to see which totals support defensible global shares and which rates, per-capita measures or rankings need a different comparison.
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