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BEIJING — China’s latest census shows that the world’s most populous country is aging rapidly and that half the people now live in cities.
Results of the census, released Thursday, showed that the number of people under age 14 accounted for 16.6 percent of the country’s 1.34 billion people, down 6.3 percentage points from 10 years ago. The number of people over age 60 was now 13.3 percent, up nearly 3 percentage points.
The census also showed that nearly 50 percent of the population lived in cities, up from about 36 percent in 2000.
