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Figure 1.7 Percentage of ethnic minority groups, 2010

04/02/2015

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Source: National Bureau of Statistics, Tabulation on the 2010 Population Census of the people’s Republic of China, 2012

Figure 1.7
China is comprised of 56 different ethnic groups, including Han and 55 ethnic minority groups. In 2010, the total population of the 55 ethnic minority groups was 112 million, accounting for 8.4 per cent of the total population and mostly concentrated in western China. Four ethnic minority groups in China had a population over 10 million, namely Zhuang, Manchu, Hui and Uyghur. Among all provinces in 2010, Tibet had the highest proportion of the population who were ethnic minorities (92 per cent), while Guangxi was home to 17 million people of ethnic minority status, who were mainly Zhuang. This is the largest population of a single ethnic minority group within a province.

上一篇:Figure 1.6 Population pyramid, 2013
下一篇:Figure 1.8 Life expectancy at birth, 1981–2010

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