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China: Statistics

Economy 
Budget Expenditures $1.73 trillion (2011 est.)
Budget revenues $1.65 trillion (2011 est.)
Debt - external $656.30 billion (2011 est.)
Distribution Of Family Income - GINI Index 48% (2009 )
Electricity Consumption 4.693 trillion kWh (2011 )
Electricity Exports 19.06 billion kWh (2010 )
Electricity Imports 55.45 billion kWh (2010 )
Electricity Production 4.604 trillion kWh (2011 )
Exports $1.90 trillion (2011 est.)
GDP - purchasing power parity $11.30 trillion (2011 est.)
Note: data are in 2011 US dollars
GDP - real growth rate 9.2% (2011 est.)
Imports $1.66 trillion (2011 est.)
Industrial production growth rate 13.9% (2011 est.)
Inflation rate (consumer prices) 5.5% (2011 est.)
Labor force 795.5 million (2011 est.)
Note: by the end of 2011, population at working age (15-64 years) was 1.0024 billion (2011 est.)
Natural Gas Consumption 130.9 billion cu m (2011 est.)
Natural Gas Exports 3.21 billion cu m (2011 est.)
Natural Gas Imports 31.37 billion cu m (2011 est.)
Natural Gas Production 102.7 billion cu m (2011 est.)
Natural Gas Proved Reserves 3.03 trillion cu m (2012 est.)
Oil Consumption 9.79 million bbl/day (2011 est.)
Oil Exports 421.3 thousand bbl/day (2011 est.)
Oil Imports 5.08 million bbl/day (2011 est.)
Oil Production 4.073 million bbl/day (2011 )
Oil Proved Reserves 20.35 billion bbl (2012 est.)
Unemployment rate 6.5% (2011 est.)
Note: registered urban unemployment, which excludes private enterprises and migrants was 4.1% in 2010
People 
HIV/AIDS - Adult Prevalence Rate 0.1% (2009 est.)
Infant mortality rate 15.62 deaths per 1,000 live births (2012 est.)
Population 1,343,239,923 (2012 est.)
Population Below Poverty Line 13.4% (2011 )
Note: in 2011, China set a new poverty line at RMB 2300 (approximately US $363; this new standard is significantly higher than the line set in 2009, and as a result, 128 million Chinese are now considered below the poverty line (2011)
Population growth rate 0.481% (2012 est.)
Total fertility rate 1.55 children per woman (2012 est.)
Ethnic Groups:
Han Chinese 91.5%, Zhuang, Manchu, Hui, Miao, Uyghur, Tujia, Yi, Mongol, Tibetan, Buyi, Dong, Yao, Korean, and other nationalities 8.5% (2000 census)
Nationality:
noun: Chinese (singular and plural) adjective: Chinese
Religions:
Daoist (Taoist), Buddhist, Christian 3%-4%, Muslim 1%-2% note: officially atheist (2002 est.)
Languages:
Standard Chinese or Mandarin (Putonghua, based on the Beijing dialect), Yue (Cantonese), Wu (Shanghainese), Minbei (Fuzhou), Minnan (Hokkien-Taiwanese), Xiang, Gan, Hakka dialects, minority languages (see Ethnic groups entry)
Geography 
Location:
Eastern Asia, bordering the East China Sea, Korea Bay, Yellow Sea, and South China Sea, between North Korea and Vietnam
Area
Total:9,596,961 sq. km
Land:9,569,901 sq. km
Water:27,060 sq. km
Coastline: 14,500 km
Climate:
extremely diverse; tropical in south to subarctic in north
Terrain:
mostly mountains, high plateaus, deserts in west; plains, deltas, and hills in east
Elevation Extremes
Lowest Point:Turpan Pendi -154 m
Highest Point: Mount Everest 8,850 m
Environment - International Agreements:
party to: Antarctic-Environmental Protocol, Antarctic Treaty, Biodiversity, Climate Change, Climate Change-Kyoto Protocol, Desertification, Endangered Species, Environmental Modification, Hazardous Wastes, Law of the Sea, Marine Dumping, Ozone Layer Protection, Ship Pollution, Tropical Timber 83, Tropical Timber 94, Wetlands, Whaling signed, but not ratified: none of the selected agreements
International Organization Participation:
ADB, AfDB (nonregional member), APEC, APT, ARF, ASEAN (dialogue partner), BIS, CDB, EAS, FAO, G-20, G-24 (observer), G-77, IAEA, IBRD, ICAO, ICC, ICRM, IDA, IFAD, IFC, IFRCS, IHO, ILO, IMF, IMO, IMSO, Interpol, IOC, IOM (observer), IPU, ISO, ITSO, ITU, LAIA (observer), MIGA, MINURSO, MONUC, NAM (observer), NSG, OAS (observer), OPCW, PCA, PIF (partner), SAARC (observer), SCO, SICA (observer), UN, UN Security Council, UNAMID, UNCTAD, UNESCO, UNHCR, UNIDO, UNIFIL, UNITAR, UNMIL, UNMIS, UNMIT, UNOCI, UNTSO, UNWTO, UPU, WCO, WFTU, WHO, WIPO, WMO, WTO, ZC
Technology 
Airports 497 (2012 )
Cellular Telephones 986,253,000 (2011 )
Highways 3,860,800 (2009 )
Internet Hosts 20,602,000 (2012 )
Internet Users 389,000,000 (2009 )
Railways 86,000 (2009 )
Telephones 285,115,000 (2011 )

Sources:

CIA World Factbook

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