The proportion of China's population in the world's total has dropped to 20.1% in 2007 from 22.2% in 1980, according to a report released by the National Bureau of Statistics of China on November 3.
Statistics shows that since the family planning policy was implemented, China has successfully reduced more than 400 million births, postponing both China's "1.3 billion population day" and the world's "6 billion population day" by four years.
China's population growth rate declined from 1.2% in 1978 to 0.52% in 2008.
The country's total population increased from 962.59 million at the end of 1978 to 1.32129 billion at the end of 2007, yielding an average annual growth rate of 1.1%, a drop of 0.9 percentage points prior to the reform and opening-up policy. It shows China's population has entered a stable growth period.
The report also points out that China's population reproduction type has completed the transition from the traditional mode characterized by "high birth rate, low death rate and high natural growth rate" to the modern mode of "low birth rate, low death rate and low natural growth rate."
This historical shift took less than 30 years, while in developed countries, it normally takes over 100 years.
By People's Daily Online
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