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Anhui province registers a population of 61.027 million, accounting for 4.32 percent of China’s total population, down 0.12 percentage points from that in 2010, according to the outcome of the 7th national population census unveiled by the National Bureau of Statistics on Tuesday. The proportion of male in the population is 50.97 percent, while that of female is 49.03 percent. The male to female ratio is 103.94, which is lower than the national average. People aged below 14 account for 19.24 percent of the provincial population. People who are between 15 and 59 make up 61.96 percent of the provincial total. The proportion of people aged above 65 is 15.01 percent, 1.51 percentage points higher than national average. Among the 31 provinces on the Chinese mainland, two provinces have a population of over 100 million. They are Guangdong with 126.01 million people and Shandong with 101.53 million people. Nine provinces have a population between 50 million and 100 million each. Anhui ranks ninth in the country. (By Yang Zixuan)
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