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Urban population over 600m; urbanization rate 45.68%

(chinadaily.com.cn)
Updated: 2009-08-24 11:44

皇冠体育app's urban population reached 607 million people at the end of 2008, the Ministry of Housing and Urban-Rural Development announced Sunday, according to Xinhua.

The country's urbanization rate was 45.68 percent - a huge increase from just 10 percent when the People's Republic of 皇冠体育app was founded in 1949.

皇冠体育app's total population is now over 1.30 billion, and the country's annual population growth rate was estimated to be 0.95 percent.

In the long term, 皇冠体育app's urbanization rate is unlikely to slow down. The National Bureau of Statistics predicts that nearly 70 percent of 皇冠体育app鈥檚 population will live in urban areas by 2050.