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China

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China is a country. The capital city is Beijing, located in the Eastern Asia region of Asia. It has a land area of 9,388,210 km², a population of 1,410,710,000 people and uses the currency Chinese yuan. The General Secretary of the Communist Party is Xi Jinping.

Key facts

currency: Chinese yuan
capital city: Beijing
region: Eastern Asia
continent: Asia
land area: 9,388,210 km²
population: 1,410,710,000 people
political leader: Xi Jinping (General Secretary of the Communist Party)

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GDP: 17,794,783,039,552.00 current US$
inflation: 0.23 annual %
self-employed workers: 45.31 % of total employment
tax revenue: 7.70 % of GDP
unemployment: 4.67 % of total labor force
vulnerable employment: 41.27 % of total employment
armed forces personnel: 2,535,000 people
democracy score: 3.32
democracy type: Authoritarian
individuals using the Internet: 77.50 % of population
military expenditure: 1.67 % of GDP
net migration: -567,724 people
press freedom: 0.99
proportion of seats held by women in national parliaments: 26.54 %
birth rate: 6.77 per 1,000 people
death rate: 7.37 per 1,000 people
health expenditure per capita: 670.51 current US$
health expenditure: 5.38 % of GDP
hospital beds: 5.00 per 1,000 people
life expectancy at birth: 79
suicide mortality rate: 8.10 per 100,000 population
agricultural land: 5,206,950.00 km²
alternative and nuclear energy: 5.11 % of total energy use
carbon dioxide emissions (CO2): 13,259.64 Mt of CO2 equivalent
access to electricity: 100.00 % of population
electricity production from coal sources: 70.31 % of total
electricity production from natural gas sources: 2.49 % of total
electricity production from hydroelectric sources: 19.07 % of total
electricity production from nuclear sources: 2.34 % of total
electricity production from oil sources: 0.17 % of total
electricity production from renewable sources, excluding hydroelectric: 4.86 % of total
net energy imports: 15.02 % of energy use
fertility rate: 1.18 births per woman
forest area: 2,237,373 km²
fossil fuel energy consumption: 87.67 % of total
greenhouse gas emissions (CO2, CH4, N2O, HFCs, PFCs, SF6): 15,943.99 Mt of CO2 equivalent
median age: 35.10
methane emissions: 1,814.21 Mt of CO2 equivalent
nitrous oxide emissions: 414.54 Mt of CO2 equivalent
female population: 691,540,464 people
male population: 719,169,536 people
renewable energy consumption: 15.20 % of total final energy consumption
rural land area: 8,723,723.06 km²
rural population: 499,814,553 people
urban land area: 522,345.19 km²
urban population: 910,895,447 people
urban population living in areas where elevation is below 5 meters : 4.35 % of total population

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China is one of the countries in Asia, countries in Eastern Asia and 194 countries in our database.

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Distribution of politicians from China by birth year

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Distribution of diseases by first founded year in China

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Evolution of historical fertility rate in China with forecast

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Correlation of birth rate and proportion of self-employed workers by countries yearly in China

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