CHINA / About Guangdong
Population, Employment, Social Security and Living Standards
(china.org)
Updated: 2006-05-16 10:02
Population
The year 2004 saw a birth rate of 13.13��, and a mortality rate of
5.12��. The natural growth rate of the population stood at 8.01��. At the
end of the year, the total population stood at 83.037 million.
Employment
The employed population stood at 46.20 million at the year-end. Some
1.05 million new jobs were created during the year, and a total of
253,000 laid-off workers got re-employed.
Registered unemployment rate
The registered urban unemployment rate was 2.7%, 0.2 percentage points
down from the previous year-end.
Social security
In 2004, insurance plans for endowments, unemployment, medical
treatment, and industrial injury covered a population of 12.255 million,
10.058 million, 10.342 million, and 12.151 million respectively. These
figures are respectively 7.0%, 5.4%, 17.9% and 8.5% up from the 2003
figures.
Residents' income
The disposable income of urban residents was 13,628 yuan per capita, up
by 7.3% from 2003. Rural residents' per capita net income was 4,366 yuan,
up by 4.0%.
(Statistics as of 2004)
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