Year-end counts across three separate partitions—residence, sex and age; million people, 2025 preliminary.
China’s year-end population was 1,404.89 million in 2025. Urban residents outnumbered rural residents, males slightly outnumbered females, and people aged 16–59 formed the largest broad age group. The graphic preserves residence, sex and age as three separate complete partitions rather than combining all rows into one total. People aged 65 or older are retained as a subset benchmark within the wider age-60-plus group.
| Rank | Entry | Value | Period |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Urban | 953.80M | 2025 prelim. |
| 2 | Rural | 451.09M | 2025 prelim. |
| 3 | Male | 716.85M | 2025 prelim. |
| 4 | Female | 688.04M | 2025 prelim. |
| 5 | Age 0–15 | 230.15M | 2025 prelim. |
| 6 | Age 16–59 | 851.36M | 2025 prelim. |
| 7 | Age 60+ | 323.38M | 2025 prelim. |
Publisher: National Bureau of Statistics of China
Dataset/table: Population by residence, sex and age, 2025
Units: million persons
Date checked: 2026-07-18
Evidence: Supports China’s 2025 year-end population total and residence, sex and broad-age counts.
Residence, sex and age are three separate classification partitions. The age-65-plus figure is a subset benchmark within the age-60-plus group and is not an eighth bar.
Organizes the official population release into three complete demographic partitions and retains parent and subset rows only as benchmarks.
All counts and shares use the same NBS year-end 2025 population table and national denominator.
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