Figure 1.7 Child population, by province, 2015
CHAPTER 1 POPULATION DEMOGRAPHICS
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Source: National Bureau of Statistics, UNICEF China, UNFPA China, ‘Population Status of Children in China in 2015: Facts and Figures’, 2017
Figure 1.7
Seventy per cent of the child population is concentrated in the eastern and central regions. Henan province has a child population of 24.01 million, the largest among all provinces, while Tibet has the smallest with only 910,000. Although the child population in absolute numbers is smaller in the western region, the proportion of children among the total population is higher in the western region (22 per cent), as compared to the eastern region (18 per cent) and the central region (21 per cent). The proportion of families with children in all of China’s provinces varied significantly in 2015. Only one-quarter of households in Shanghai had children, and one-third of households in Beijing and Tianjin had children. In contrast, in Tibet, more than 60 per cent of families had children, and its average family size also ranked highest among the provinces, reaching 4.1 persons.