The Population of China

China has the world's largest population over 1.3 billion people (1,330,044,605 as of mid-2008) with a land size of 9.6 million sq km. It has 56 ethnic groups. The Han accounts for 92%.
As the world's population is approximately 6.7 billion, China represents a full 20% of the world's population so one in every five people on the planet is a resident of China.
By end 2010 it is expected to reach 1.4 billion. At some point it is expected to decline because of its one-child policy.
1. Anhui (66 million)
2. Beijing (18 million)
3. Chongqing (32 million)
4. Fujian (36 million)
5. Gansu (27 million)
6. Guangdong (115 million)
7. Guangxi (50 million)
8. Guizhou (40 million)
9. Hainan (9 million)
10. Hebei (69 million)
11. Heilongjiang (39 million)
12. Henan (100 million)
13. Hong Kong (8 million)
14. Hubei (62 million)
15. Hunan (68 million)
16. Inner Mongolia (25 million)
17. Jiangsu (76 million)
18. Jiangxi (44 million)
19. Jilin (28 million)
20. Liaoning (43 million)
21. Macau (0.5 million)
22. Ningxia (76 million)
23. Qinghai (6 million)
24. Shaanxi (38 million)
25. Shandong (93 million)
26. Shanghai (20 million)
27. Shanxi (33 million)
28. Sichuan (87 million)
29. Taiwan (23 million)
30. Tianjin (12 million)
31. Tibet (3 million)
32. Xinjiang (20 million)
33. Yunnan (44 million)
34. Zhejiang (47 million)

The other 9 populous countries are India (1.1b),USA(307m),Indonesia(240m),Brazil (190m),Pakistan (174m),Bangladesh(156m),Nigeria(149m),Russia(140m) andJapan(27m).