Adult literacy rate in China is 96.4%. Male literacy is 98.2%. Female literacy is 94.5%. Therefore, male literacy and female literacy differ by 3.7%. Government expenditure on education is 4.3% of GDP. The education index of China is 0.61 - formal education levels in the country are average, but most of the population has a secondary school education at least; higher education is possible and not uncommon. People in China speak the Standard Mandarin language.
English language
In China, around 0% of the population or 10,000,000 people speak English. 10,000,000 of China's population use English as either foreign or second language.
Demographics of China
The total population of China is 1,415,045,928 people. The people of China speak the standard language, Mandarin. China's linguistic diversity is vaguely diverse according to a fractionation scale, which is 0.1327 for China. The average age is around 36.7 years. Life expectancy in China is 75 years. The female fertility rate in China is 1.7. About 6% of China's population is obese. Ethnic diversity is nearly uniform according to a fractionation scale, which is 0.1538 for China. Details of the language, religion, age, gender distribution and advancement of the people of China can be found in the sections below, as well as the section on education in the country.
Population
In China, the population density is 142.42 people per square kilometer (370 per square mile). Based on these statistics, this country is considered densely populated. The total population of China is 1,415,045,928 people. China has about 978,046 foreign immigrants. Immigrants in China account for 0.4 percent of the world's total number of immigrants. Immigrants in China account for 0.1 percent of the world's total number of immigrants. China's ethnic diversity is nearly uniform according to a fractionation scale based on ethnicity. Ethnic fractionation (EF) is concerned with the number, size, socioeconomic distribution, and geographic location of different cultural groups, usually within a state or other defined area. Specific cultural characteristics can refer to language, skin color, religion, ethnicity, customs and traditions, history, or other distinctive criteria, alone or in combination. These characteristics are often used for social exclusion and power monopolization. The index of ethnic fractionation in China is 0.1538. This means that the people living in China belong to a small group of ethnic groups that are all related to each other. EF is usually measured as 1 minus the Herfindahl concentration index of ethnolinguistic group proportions, which reflects the probability that two randomly selected individuals from the population belong to different groups. The theoretical maximum of EF of 1 means that each person belongs to a different group. Below are statistics about China on average age and gender distribution at different ages.
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