{"id":438,"date":"2011-04-28T15:23:01","date_gmt":"2011-04-28T19:23:01","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/web.colby.edu\/eldercare\/?p=438"},"modified":"2011-06-21T15:30:08","modified_gmt":"2011-06-21T19:30:08","slug":"china-census-shows-population-ageing-and-urban","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/web.colby.edu\/eldercare\/2011\/04\/28\/china-census-shows-population-ageing-and-urban\/","title":{"rendered":"China census shows population ageing and urban"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>(BBC News) China&#8217;s census shows its population grew to 1.34 billion people by 2010, with a sharp rise in those over 60.<\/p>\n<p>Nearly half of all Chinese now live in cities and people over  the age of 60 now account for 13.3% of the population, up nearly 3%  since 2000.<\/p>\n<p>But the figures reveal that China&#8217;s population is growing more slowly than in the past.<\/p>\n<div><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/news.bbcimg.co.uk\/media\/images\/52376000\/jpg\/_52376709_011693551-1.jpg\" alt=\"Women push babies in prams through a Beijing park (5 April 2011)\" width=\"304\" height=\"171\" \/><\/div>\n<div>China has been looking to contain population growth with measures like its one-child policy<\/div>\n<div><!--more--><\/div>\n<div>\n<p>That could affect the economy, as the number of potential workers, especially from rural areas, could shrink.<\/p>\n<p>The proportion of mainland Chinese people aged 14 or younger  was 16.6%, down by 6.29 percentage points from the last census in 2000.<\/p>\n<p>The number aged 60 or older grew to 13.26%, up 2.93 percentage points.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Chinese snapshot<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>When China carried out its first census in 1953 it had a population of 594 million, less than half the current figure.<\/p>\n<p>This census, the first in 10 years, comes after a decade of rapid economic growth that has led to significant social change.<\/p>\n<p>Continue: <a href=\"http:\/\/www.bbc.co.uk\/news\/world-asia-pacific-13218733\" target=\"_blank\">http:\/\/www.bbc.co.uk\/news\/world-asia-pacific-13218733<\/a><\/p>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>(BBC News) China&#8217;s census shows its population grew to 1.34 billion people by 2010, with a sharp rise in those over 60. Nearly half of all Chinese now live in cities and people over the age of 60 now account &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/web.colby.edu\/eldercare\/2011\/04\/28\/china-census-shows-population-ageing-and-urban\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3636,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"ngg_post_thumbnail":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[10995,40877,40871],"tags":[40864,10996],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/web.colby.edu\/eldercare\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/438"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/web.colby.edu\/eldercare\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/web.colby.edu\/eldercare\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/web.colby.edu\/eldercare\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3636"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/web.colby.edu\/eldercare\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=438"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/web.colby.edu\/eldercare\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/438\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":443,"href":"https:\/\/web.colby.edu\/eldercare\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/438\/revisions\/443"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/web.colby.edu\/eldercare\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=438"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/web.colby.edu\/eldercare\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=438"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/web.colby.edu\/eldercare\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=438"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}