Understanding the Demographics of China
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Global Demographics Releases new report on 'Understanding the Demographics of China'

This is a new report aimed at helping persons not familiar with China to understand the complexities of its demographics. This includes; the manner in which the regions are classified, the differences between the rural and urban populations, the size and trend in urban drift, relative age profiles of urban and rural populations and implications for births, the potential impact of relaxing the one child policy, and reliability of reported household incomes.

One of the issues of doing business in China is having an understanding the nature of the population, and this in turn requires some understanding of how the population is 'organized' in terms of regional classifications. The main classifications are Provinces, Municipalities, Prefectures, County cities and Counties. Overlay this with distinctions between City type (A, B C or D), Towns, and rural communities and it is even more complex. This report provides a clear discussion on these different classifications and how they inter relate.

It also examines one of the key drivers of population change within areas - that is the rural urban migration. It shows which age groups are migrating to urban areas and the level of migration that can be expected in future years - with the implications of that for the size and age profile of the city, town and rural populations.

It looks at the issue of births. One aspect is the changing location of the child bearing age population - it is increasingly urban - and the implications of that for number of births in future as the one child policy does not apply to rural registered citizens. Overall the trend is down and with that there is the inevitable question of what happens to total births (and the population) if the one child policy is relaxed?

Finally it examines reported household incomes and the reasonableness of those levels relative other external measures.

The overall intent of this report is that a person new to China will be aware of the structural nature of the population and how it might change as a result of trends in the key drivers of births and migration.

Format: PowerPoint
Delivery: email or download from website
Price: US$450