WORLD HISTORY

Detailed explanation-1: -The demographics of China demonstrate a huge population with a relatively small youth component, partially a result of China’s one-child policy. China’s population reached 1 billion in 1982. China is the most populated country in the world but is set to be overtaken by India by the end of April 2023.

Detailed explanation-2: -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.

Detailed explanation-3: -China has had the most people in the world since at least 1950, the year United Nations population data began. Both China and India have more than 1.4 billion people, and combined they make up more than a third of the world’s 8 billion people.

Detailed explanation-4: -While the 2022 WPP puts the Chinese population at 1.43 billion people, I estimate that it is now smaller than 1.28 billion. Moreover, according to the WPP, there were 28.2 million births in China in 1990 and 17.4 million in 2000.