Population

2021-09-03 17:03:00 , Source : The Government Website of Shaanxi Province

Since the establishment of the People’s Republic of China, Shaanxi Province has conducted 7 nationwide censuses in 1953, 1964, 1982, 1990, 2000, 2010, and 2020. The total population of the province is 15.881 million, 20.767 million, 28.904 million, 32.882 million, 36.05 million, 37.327 million and 39.529 million respectively. In the meantime, Shaanxi has advocated and experimented with family planning since the 1960s. From January 1, 2016, Shaanxi Province has implemented a comprehensive two-child policy.

According to the results of the seventh national census, as of November 1, 2020, among the permanent residents of the province, the population living in cities and towns was 24,769,730, and the urban population accounted for 62.66% of the permanent population; the population living in rural areas was 14,759,269, accounting for The permanent population is 37.34%. Compared with the sixth national census in 2010, the urban population increased by 7,710,394, the rural population decreased by 5,508,773, and the proportion of urban population increased by 16.96 percent.


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