| Year | Pop. | ±% p.a. |
|---|---|---|
| 57 | 280,600 | — |
| 589 | 458,000 | +0.09% |
| 938 | 100,000 | −0.44% |
| 1113 | 583,000 | +1.01% |
| 1125 | 340,000 | −4.39% |
| 1207 | 1,600,000 | +1.91% |
| 1216 | 285,000 | −17.44% |
| 1270 | 1,053,000 | +2.45% |
| 1327 | 3,032,000 | +1.87% |
| 1369 | 208,000 | −6.18% |
| 1448 | 3,150,000 | +3.50% |
| 1644 | 698,000 | −0.77% |
| 1647 | 1,839,000 | +38.12% |
| 1781 | 2,956,242 | +0.35% |
| 1881 | 3,226,111 | +0.09% |
| 1910 | 2,485,442 | −0.90% |
| 1917 | 3,711,566 | +5.90% |
| 1935 | 4,595,000 | +1.19% |
| 1949 | 2,030,000 | −5.67% |
| 1953 | 2,768,149 | +8.06% |
| 1964 | 7,568,495 | +9.57% |
| 1982 | 9,230,687 | +1.11% |
| 1990 | 10,819,407 | +2.00% |
| 2000 | 13,569,194 | +2.29% |
| 2010 | 19,612,368 | +3.75% |
| 2013 | 21,150,000 | +2.55% |
| Population size may be affected by changes on administrative divisions. | ||
The registered population of Beijing Municipality consists of people holding either Beijing permanent residence hukou permits or temporary residence permits. The 2010 census revealed that the official total population in Beijing was 19,612,368,[1] representing a 44% increase over the last decade.[2] In 2006, the population of the urban core was 13.33 million, 84.3 percent of the total municipal population, which officially stood at 15.81 million.[3] Urban sprawl continues at a rapid pace.[4]
After Chongqing and Shanghai,[1] Beijing is the third largest of the four directly controlled municipalities of the People's Republic of China. In the PRC, a directly controlled municipality (直辖市 in pinyin: zhíxiáshì) is a city with status equal to a province. Even though Chongqing is the most populous municipality, it has a larger land area than either Beijing or Shanghai and includes many rural areas; Brittany Hite of The Wall Street Journal stated that Chongqing "is more akin to a small province than a city."[5]
According to the statistical yearbook issued in 2005 by the National Bureau of Statistics of China, out of a total population in 2004 of 14.213 million in Beijing, 1.415 million (9.96%) were 0–14 years old, 11.217 million (78.92%) were 15–64 and 1.581 million (11.12%) 65 and over.[6]
As of 2014, the population of Beijing almost equalled that of Australia.[5]
- ^ a b "Communiqué of the National Bureau of Statistics of People's Republic of China on Major Figures of the 2010 Population Census". National Bureau of Statistics of China. Archived from the original on 2013-07-27.
- ^ "省、自治区、直辖市的分性别、户口登记状况的人口". National Bureau of Statistics of China. April 2001. Retrieved 9 July 2011.
- ^ Figures based on 2006 statistics published in 2007 National Statistical Yearbook of China and available online at 2006年中国乡村人口数 中国人口与发展研究中心. Retrieved 21 April 2009. Archived March 10, 2009, at the Wayback Machine
- ^ Zhao, P. (2010). "Sustainable urban expansion and transportation in a growing megacity: Consequences of urban sprawl for mobility on the urban fringe of Beijing". Habitat International. 34 (2): 236–243. doi:10.1016/j.habitatint.2009.09.008.
- ^ a b Hite, Brittany. "Beijing Now Has Almost as Many People as Australia." The New York Times. June 19, 2014. Retrieved on June 21, 2014.
- ^ "Age Composition and Dependency Ratio of Population by Region (2004) in China Statistics 2005". Retrieved 5 July 2010.