How many people live in China?
World easy Data from 2024
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The answer
1,410,000,000 people
Roughly 1.4B.
China holds around 1.41 billion people, but its population has now been shrinking for several consecutive years. Decades of the one-child policy, followed by a collapse in births even after it was scrapped, mean India overtook China as the most populous country in 2023.
Where this number comes from
| Source | National Bureau of Statistics of China |
|---|---|
| Figure refers to | 2024 |
| Last checked | |
| Unit | people |
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