Ministry targets 77 years life expectancy
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August 18, 2012, Saturday
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CHINA'S average life expectancy will increase to 77 years by 2020 from last year's 74.83 years, according to an official forecast released yesterday.
Targets for improving life expectancy, as well as nine other key indicators of the country's public health, were set out in a Ministry of Health report.
It said national healthcare input should amount to 6.5 to 7 percent of gross domestic product by 2020. The ratio stood at 4.98 percent in 2010, based on a 2 trillion yuan (US$314 billion) annual healthcare budget.
Also yesterday, the National Bureau of Statistics reported that China's population reached 1.347 billion by the end of 2011, an increase of 62.82 million from 2002.
The ratio of Chinese to the world population dropped from 20.3 percent in 2002 to 19.5 percent in 2011, it said.
In 2011, the number of Chinese between the ages of 15 and 64 topped 1 billion, accounting for 74.4 percent of the total population. People aged 65 or over made up 9.1 percent, compared with 7.3 percent in 2002.
China saw 16.04 million births in 2011.
The illiteracy rate fell to 4.08 percent in 2010 from 9.16 percent in 2002, the report said.
The number of urban dwellers hit 690.79 million as of the end of 2011, 51.27 percent of the country's population.
In 2011, China's family size averaged 3.02 persons per household, although it was less than 3 for urban families.
China had a work force of 764.2 million people by the end of 2011, 359.14 million in urban areas where the unemployment rate was 4.1 percent at the end of 2011.
Targets for improving life expectancy, as well as nine other key indicators of the country's public health, were set out in a Ministry of Health report.
It said national healthcare input should amount to 6.5 to 7 percent of gross domestic product by 2020. The ratio stood at 4.98 percent in 2010, based on a 2 trillion yuan (US$314 billion) annual healthcare budget.
Also yesterday, the National Bureau of Statistics reported that China's population reached 1.347 billion by the end of 2011, an increase of 62.82 million from 2002.
The ratio of Chinese to the world population dropped from 20.3 percent in 2002 to 19.5 percent in 2011, it said.
In 2011, the number of Chinese between the ages of 15 and 64 topped 1 billion, accounting for 74.4 percent of the total population. People aged 65 or over made up 9.1 percent, compared with 7.3 percent in 2002.
China saw 16.04 million births in 2011.
The illiteracy rate fell to 4.08 percent in 2010 from 9.16 percent in 2002, the report said.
The number of urban dwellers hit 690.79 million as of the end of 2011, 51.27 percent of the country's population.
In 2011, China's family size averaged 3.02 persons per household, although it was less than 3 for urban families.
China had a work force of 764.2 million people by the end of 2011, 359.14 million in urban areas where the unemployment rate was 4.1 percent at the end of 2011.
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