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CHINA IS HOME to 18% of the world’s population, the world’s largest standing army, and one in every three cigarettes in the world is smoked there.
This month, as part of The Good Information Project, The Journal is looking at China, its growing influence, and its relationship with the EU and Ireland.
That’s why we want to break down the data about the Chinese population.
There are 1,411,778,724 people in China, according to the best data from the World Bank, and while the birth rate is starting to slow, this is the biggest population of any country on Earth.
To help break down the demographics, we’re going to present this data as if China was a village with 100 people.
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This work is co-funded by Journal Media and a grant programme from the European Parliament. Any opinions or conclusions expressed in this work is the author’s own. The European Parliament has no involvement in nor responsibility for the editorial content published by the project. For more information, see here.
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