China 
Facts
Population:
1,273,111,290 (July 2001 est.)
Age structure:
0-14 years:
25.01% (male 166,754,893; female 151,598,117)
15-64 years:
67.88% (male 445,222,858; female 418,959,646)
65 years and over:
7.11% (male 42,547,296; female 48,028,480) (2001 est.)
Population growth rate:
0.88% (2001 est.)
Birth rate:
15.95 births/1,000 population (2001 est.)
Death rate:
6.74 deaths/1,000 population (2001 est.)
Net migration rate:
-0.39 migrant(s)/1,000 population (2001 est.)
Sex ratio:
at birth:
1.09 male(s)/female
under 15 years:
1.1 male(s)/female
15-64 years:
1.06 male(s)/female
65 years and over:
0.89 male(s)/female
total population:
1.06 male(s)/female (2001 est.)
Infant mortality rate:
28.08 deaths/1,000 live births (2001 est.)
Life expectancy at birth:
total population:
71.62 years
male:
69.81 years
female:
73.59 years (2001 est.)
Total fertility rate:
1.82 children born/woman (2001 est.)
HIV/AIDS - adult prevalence rate:
0.07% (1999 est.)
HIV/AIDS - people living with HIV/AIDS:
500,000 (1999 est.)
HIV/AIDS - deaths:
17,000 (1999 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:
Daoist (Taoist), Buddhist, Muslim 2%-3%, Christian 1% (est.)
note:
officially atheist
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)
Literacy:
definition:
age 15 and over can read and write
total population:
81.5%
male:
89.9%
female:
72.7% (1995 est.)
GDP:
purchasing power parity - $4.5 trillion (2000 est.)
GDP - real growth rate:
8% (2000 est.)
GDP - per capita:
purchasing power parity - $3,600 (2000 est.)
GDP - composition by sector:
agriculture:
15%
industry:
50%
services:
35% (2000 est.)
Population below poverty line:
10% (1999 est.)
Household income or consumption by percentage share:
lowest 10%:
2.4%
highest 10%:
30.4% (1998)
Inflation rate (consumer prices):
0.4% (2000 est.)
Labor force:
700 million (1998 est.)
Labor force - by occupation:
agriculture 50%, industry 24%, services 26% (1998)
Unemployment rate:
urban unemployment roughly 10%; substantial unemployment and underemployment in rural areas (2000 est.)
Budget:
revenues:
$NA
expenditures:
$NA, including capital expenditures of $NA
Industries:
iron and steel, coal, machine building, armaments, textiles and apparel, petroleum, cement, chemical fertilizers, footwear, toys, food processing, automobiles, consumer electronics, telecommunications
Industrial production growth rate:
10% (2000 est.)
Electricity - production:
1.173 trillion kWh (1999)
Electricity - production by source:
fossil fuel:
79.82%
hydro:
18.98%
nuclear:
1.2%
other:
0.01% (1999)
Electricity - consumption:
1.084 trillion kWh (1999)
Electricity - exports:
7.2 billion kWh (1999)
Electricity - imports:
90 million kWh (1999)
Agriculture - products:
rice, wheat, potatoes, sorghum, peanuts, tea, millet, barley, cotton, oilseed; pork; fish
Exports:
$232 billion (f.o.b., 2000)
Exports - commodities:
machinery and equipment; textiles and clothing, footwear, toys and sporting goods; mineral fuels
Exports - partners:
US 21%, Hong Kong 18%, Japan 17%, South Korea, Germany, Netherlands, UK, Singapore, Taiwan (2000)
Imports:
$197 billion (f.o.b., 2000)
Imports - commodities:
machinery and equipment, mineral fuels, plastics, iron and steel, chemicals
Imports - partners:
Japan 18%, Taiwan 11%, US 10%, South Korea 10%, Germany, Hong Kong, Russia, Malaysia (2000)
Debt - external:
$162 billion (2000 est.)
Economic aid - recipient:
$NA
Currency:
yuan (CNY)
Currency code:
CNY
Exchange rates:
yuan per US dollar - 8.2776 (January 2001), 8.2785 (2000), 8.2783 (1999), 8.2790 (1998), 8.2898 (1997), 8.3142 (1996)
note:
beginning 1 January 1994, the People's Bank of China quotes the midpoint rate against the US dollar based on the previous day's prevailing rate in the interbank foreign exchange market
Fiscal year:
calendar year
Statistics: CIA World Factbook.
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21CN Business Herald
(Pro-government weekly), Guangzhou
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http://www.atnext.com/new/index.cfm
Arts and Literature
(Government-owned), Beijing
Asia Magazine
(Independent regional biweekly), Hong Kong
(English-language), Hong Kong
http://www.atimes.com
Asia, Inc.
(Business monthly), Hong Kong
(Independent monthly), Hong Kong
http://www.asianbusinessnet.com/
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