China's government has published the census data. Main points:

  • China still the world's most populous nation, population in 2020 of 1.41 billion
  • around 18% of the world's population
  • popn growth is 0.53% per year (slowing from a decade ago at 0.57%)
  • over 60s account for 18.7% of total popn, up nearly 5.4% from the previous census count (from 13%)

China dropped the final parts of the one-child policy in 2015.