Guangzhou Population

Guangzhou, the capital of Guangdong Province, stands at the confluence of the East River, West River and North River. Guangzhou Population has reached 9.94 million, the largest among cities in the province, according to the latest census. The figure indicates that Guangzhou has become one of the exceedingly large cities in China, next only to Chongqing, Shanghai, Beijing and Tianjin.

The Trend in Guangzhou Population

In the past decades, Guangzhou Population had excessively seen a rapid growth which has been effectively controlled. Its population structure optimized and residents' educational standards improved considerably. The census shows that Guangzhou has 2.37 million families, averaging 3.21 persons per family, down by 0.62 from 1990. It also shows that of every 100,000 people 9,309 have a college education, up 70.40 percent from ten years ago, while 23,968 people are primary school graduates, down by 24.16 percent. With the number of senior citizens rising to 598,300 from 397,200 ten year ago, a great change has taken place in the population structure.

Guangzhou's urban population stands at 8.22 million, accounting for 83.79 percent of the total, a rise of 14.39 percentage points compared to last census conducted ten years ago.

The 4 provinces that make up the resort of the Consul General (Guangdong, Guangxi, Fujian and Hainan) are home to approximately 190 million people. Around 100 million people (officially registered 86 million) live in the province of Guangdong, of which 12 million are in Guangzhou. A certain percentage of Guangzhou Population is migrant from other provinces. This percentage is slowly decreasing, because more and more people from the countryside are trying their luck in the flourishing Guangzhou. Most of the foreigners in Guangdong are from other Asian countries such as Korea, Japan, Malaysia, etc.