Basic Conditions of Population

 

Indicator

Unit

1982

1990

1995

1998

1999

2000

Total

10,000 persons

101654

114333

121121

124810

125909

126583

Breakdown by gender

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Male

10,000 persons

52352

58904

61808

63629

64189

65355

Female

10,000 persons

49302

55429

59313

61181

61720

61228

By urban and rural population

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Urban population

10,000 persons

21480

30191

35174

37942

38892

45844

Rural population

10,000 persons

80174

84142

85947

86868

87017

80739

By agricultural and non-agricultural population

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Non-agricultural

10,000 persons

18334

23887

28563

30785

31562

 

Agricultural

10,000 persons

83320

90446

92558

94025

94347

 

Population proportion

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

By gender

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Male

%

51.50

51.52

51.03

50.98

50.98

51.63

Female

%

48.50

48.48

48.97

49.02

49.02

48.37

By urban and rural population

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Urban population

%

21.13

26.41

29.04

30.40

30.89

36.22

Rural population

%

78.87

73.59

70.96

69.60

69.11

63.78

By agricultural and non-agricultural population

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Non-agricultural

%

18.04

20.89

23.58

24.67

25.07

 

Agricultural

%

81.96

79.11

76.42

75.33

74.93

 

Birth rate

”ė

22.28

21.06

17.12

16.03

15.23

 

Mortality rate

”ė

6.60

6.67

6.57

6.50

6.46

 

Natural growth rate

”ė

15.68

14.39

10.55

9.53

8.77

 

Proportion of various age groups

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

0-14

%

33.6

27.7

26.6

25.7

25.4

22.89

15-64

%

61.5

66.7

67.2

67.6

67.7

70.15

65 and above

%

4.9

5.6

6.2

6.7

6.9

6.96

Aggregate dependency coefficient

%

62.60

49.89

50.22

46.50

46.14

 

Dependency coefficient of minors

%

54.62

41.52

40.16

35.61

34.99

 

Dependency coefficient of the aged

%

7.98

8.37

10.06

10.89

11.15

 

Proportion of educated people

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

# Cannot read or can read very little

%

28.3

18.1

14.5

12.7

12.4

6.7

Primary education

%

35.4

37.2

38.4

36.8

35.7

35.7

Junior secondary education

%

17.8

23.3

27.3

30.6

31.9

34.0

High secondary education

%

6.6

8.0

8.3

9.9

9.9

11.1

Two-year college and above education

%

0.6

1.4

2.0

2.6

2.9

3.6

Marriage conditions of population aged 15 and above

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Unmarried

%

28.6

25.1

20.0

19.3

18.8

 

First marriage and currently married

%

63.7

68.2

71.1

71.9

72.4

 

Remarriage and currently married

%

-

-

2.1

1.9

1.8

 

Divorce

%

0.6

0.6

0.7

0.9

0.9

 

Widowed

%

7.2

6.1

6.1

6.1

6.0

 

Notes:

1.   The symbol ”°#”± refers to the main item in the category, ”°-”± indicates the index of the item is not available, and the ”°blank space”± indicates data unknown.

2.   All national statistics in this compact disc exclude those of the Hong Kong SAR, Macao SAR and Taiwan Province.