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Subject(s)

• China—Population [Browse]

Series

• World Bank discussion papers ; 22. [More in this series]
• World Bank discussion papers, 0259-210X ; 22 [More in this series]

Summary note

For many years, very little hard information was available about the population of the People's Republic of China. This unsatisfactory situation has changed completely in the last four years. A flood of demographic data has poured out of China, including single year age distributions from the 1953 and 1964 censuses, results from a ten percent sample of households from the 1982 census, fertility rates for the period 1940-82 from a one in a thousand fertility survey, and registration figures for end-year population, birth rate and death rate from 1950 to 1982. This paper describes the application of numerous consistency checks and adjustment procedures to these data, and draws conclusions about levels and trends of mortality, fertility and population size over the past three decades on the basis of the results obtained.

Bibliographic references

Includes bibliographical references.

ISBN

• 0821310224 ((pbk.))
• 9780821310229 ((pbk.))

LCCN

87035102

OCLC

17353851

Other standard number

• ZBWT00128600

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