From Seattle Times:
China’s population, the world’s largest, grew by almost 7 million people last year, according to an official report.
China’s National Bureau of Statistics said in a report released late Wednesday that the country’s population was 1,314,480,000 at the end of 2006, an increase of 6.92 million people.
The bureau said males accounted for 51.5 percent of the population, adding that the ratio of males to female newborns stood at 119.25 to 100 in 2006.[Full Text]
