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| Saturday,March 28,2009 Posted: 17:33 BJT(0933 GMT) |
| From:Mofcom Article type:Reproduced |
At the end of 2007, the total number of Chinese population reached 1,321.29 million, an increase of 6.81 million over that at the end of 2006. The year 2007 saw 15.94 million births, or a gross birth rate of 12.1 per thousand, and 9.13 million deaths, or a gross death rate of 6.93 per thousand. The natural growth rate was 5.17 per thousand. The sex ratioat birth (male to female, female=100) was 120.22.
In 2007, the annual per-capita net income of rural households was 4,140 yuan, a real increase of 9.5 percent over the previous year after adjusting for inflation. The annual per-capita disposable income of urban households was 13,786 yuan, a real increase of 12.2 percent after adjusting for inflation. The Engel’s Coefficient, which refers to the proportion of expenditures on food to the total expenditures of households, was 43.1 percent for rural households and 36.3 percent for urban households. The population in absolute poverty in rural areas with annual per-capita net income below 785 yuan numbered 14.79 million at the end of 2007, a decline of 6.69 million over the previous year. The low-income population in rural areas with annual per-capita net income between 786 yuan and 1,067 yuan numbered 28.41 million, a decline of 7.09 million.
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