China population is equivalent to 18.47% of the total world population. China ranks number 1 in the list of countries (and dependencies) by population. The population density in China is 153 per Km2 (397 people per mi2).
94% of China's population lives east of the Heihe–Tengchong Line. West of the line: 57% of the area; only 6% of the population. East of the line: 43% of the area; 94% of the population. The line roughly demarcates historic Han China from territories occupied by force.
India accounts for a meagre 2.4 percent of the world surface area yet it supports and sustains a whopping 17.7 percent of the world population.
With 1.31 billion native speakers, Chinese has the highest prevalence in China. As a percentage of the total population, the largest share of around 95 percent is in Hong Kong. A total of about 1.4 billion people worldwide speak Chinese as their mother tongue.
Together, China and India are home to more than one third of the world's population. For many decades, the size and growth of the Chinese and Indian populations have been a focus of global concerns about the rapid growth of the human population and its implications for sustainable development (United Nations, 2022c).
Lower literacy rates are found mostly in South Asia and Sub-Saharan Africa. The world's largest ethnic group is Han Chinese, constituting over 19% of the global population in 2011. In terms of the largest number of native speakers, Mandarin is the world's most spoken language.
The largest China racial/ethnic groups are White (96.9%) followed by Hispanic (1.7%) and Black (0.8%).
According to Policy Brief No. 153 from the United Nations Department of Economic and Social Affairs (UN DESA), entitled “India overtakes China as the world's most populous country”, between 2023 and 2050, the number of persons aged 65 or over is expected to nearly double in China and to increase by more than double in ...
Russia population is equivalent to 1.87% of the total world population. Russia ranks number 9 in the list of countries (and dependencies) by population. The population density in Russia is 9 per Km2 (23 people per mi2).
According to the data from the World Bank, the top five most populous countries in the world are China, India, the United States, Indonesia, and Pakistan. As of this year, China remains the world's most populous country with a population of over 1.41 billion people.
Brazil population is equivalent to 2.73% of the total world population. Brazil ranks number 6 in the list of countries (and dependencies) by population.
By 2035, an estimated 400 million people in China will be age 60 and over, representing 30% of the population, according to the government's own projections. And the ratio of old to young is expected to rapidly grow more unbalanced after deaths outnumbered births last year, for the first time since 1961.
There are now more than 43,000 people in China who are 100 years or older, according to a recent survey. This moves the nation into second place in the number of centenarians worldwide, with the United States coming in first and Japan now third.
For years, the census data in China has recorded a significant imbalance sex ratio toward the male population, meaning there are fewer women than men. This phenomenon is sometimes referred to as the missing women or missing girls of China. In 2021, the male-to-female ratio of China is recorded at 104.61 to 100.
Indeed, according to current projections, China's population is likely to drop below 1 billion by 2080 and below 800 million by 2100. Those specific numbers will surely change; the downward shape of the curve almost certainly will not. India by contrast will keep growing quickly for a while.
Australia has a GDP per capita of $48,700 as of 2020, while in China, the GDP per capita is $16,400 as of 2020.
Trade and investment
China is Australia's largest two-way trading partner in goods and services, accounting for nearly one third (32.2 per cent) of our trade with the world.
There are now some 1.4 million people with Chinese ancestry living in Australia, comprising 5.5% of the population. 1 According to the 2021 census, of Australia's top five ancestries, the only group to have grown since the last census in 2016 was Australians with Chinese ancestry.
The richest country in the world is Luxembourg.
The GDP per capita is calculated by dividing a country's GDP by its population. Thus, the richest countries in the world are those with the highest GDP per capita. Currently, the richest country in the world in terms of GDP per capita is Luxembourg, with a GDP per capita of $135,700.
The five most populous countries in 2022 are China, India, followed by the European Union (which is not a country), the United States, the island nation of Indonesia, and Pakistan.