Factbox-China's 2010 Census

China released its 2010 census results on Thursday, the first comprehensive review of the country's demographics in a decade. The following compares some key facts from the 2010 census .

0.57%

The annual growth rate was 0.57 percent in the decade to 2010, compared with 1.07 percent in 1991-2000.

14 years old

In 2010, 16.60 percent of the population was 14 or younger, a sharp decline from 22.89 percent in 2000.  As compared with the results of the 2000 population census, the share of people in the age group of 0-14 was down by 6.29 percentage points.

Gender

Females account for 48.73 percent of the total. The sex ratio (female=100) declined from 106.74 to 105.20.

+60 years old

Citizens aged 60 or more account for 13.26 percent, 2.93 percentage points higher than in 2000.

Floating

 In 2010, 221.4 million people had left the locality of their registered address for more than six months.

Urbanising

Nearly half of the population -- 49.7 percent live in urban areas, showing a rapidly urbanising China.

Guangdong

The top five provinces remained the same, but Guangdong jumped into first place, leap-frogging Shandong and Henan, which were the second and first most populous in 2010.

Minority

China's 55 registered ethnic groups, aside from the majority Han Chinese, accounted for 8.49 percent of the population, up from 8.41 percent in 2000. 

University

In 2010, the number of people with a university education was 8,930 per 100,000, almost 2.5 times more than in 2000, when it stood at 3,611.

Illiteracy

In 2010, the illiteracy rate of people 15 years of age or older was 4.08 percent.