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Shanghai, the eighth largest city of the world is also the largest city in China. China is the most populous nation in the world. Shanghai, one of the major cities in China, is also home to a large number of people. According to a recent sample survey, the population graph shows that Shanghai population has surpassed the limit of 20 million.
Since the People's Republic was founded 1949, the demographic pattern of Shanghai has gone through five major phases. The phases can be divided as:
The booming period (1949 – 1959)
The period of gradual increase (1960 – 1968)
The period of shrinking (1969 - 1977)
The period of increase (1978 – 1990)
The period of low increase (1991 – present)
Official figures suggest that by the end of 2002, the city of Shanghai was home to about 13.34 million people who are registered permanent residents. In addition to that, there are more than 3 million people who make the floating population.
If one goes by the population census conducted in 2000, population of Shanghai experienced a natural increment -1.9 per 1,000. The rapid urbanization and ever increasing metropolitan regions has resulted a huge increase in the urban population. In the year 2000, the urban population of Shanghai leaped to 14.78 million, which accounted for 88.31percent of the total population |
