China releases 7th population census data

The State Council Information Office held a news conference on the outcome of the seventh national population census on Tuesday (May 11). Here are the highlights:

- Chinese mainland registers a population of 1.41 billion, with an annual growth rate of 0.53 percent in the past decade, down from 0.57 percent recorded from 2000 to 2010.

- Chinese aged 60 and above reached 264.02 million, or 18.70 percent of population, up 5.44 percentage points over the last decade.