World population/China
Asia
Population of China
1,412,914,090
Growing by -0.10 people every second
#2
world rank
17.02%
of world population
-0.23%
yearly change
-3,234,684
people this year
8,625,232
births a year
11,482,042
deaths a year
How the figure for China is worked out
The United Nations puts the population of China at 1,412,914,090 on 1 July 2026, and projects 1,409,679,406 for 1 July 2027. The counter above moves steadily between those two published points, which works out at about 0.10 people lost every second.
That places China number 2 of the 237 countries and areas the United Nations reports, holding 17.02 per cent of everyone alive, and among the largest of the 51 entries in Asia.
Underneath that single number sit roughly 8,625,232 births and 11,482,042 deaths a year. The gap between them is natural increase; the difference between natural increase and the change in total population is migration.
None of this is counted in real time. No country registers births and deaths as they happen and publishes them to the second. The seconds ticking above are arithmetic between two annual reference points, and the broad figure is far more reliable than its final digits.
Other countries in Asia
Ranked by population.