HISTORICAL TIMELINE / CHN 2016
China 中国
People's Republic of China · 中华人民共和国
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Contemporary period reports + retrospective historical series
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2006 ↔ 2016Records: 2016 · map: shared geographic contextDated settlement, trade, energy and network layers are not supplied for this year.
SHARED GEOGRAPHIC CONTEXT
Undated fixture · provenance attached
Undated fixture · provenance attached
Administration and claim geometries are separate records; statistical series retain their cited scope.
relief water cities
02SNAPSHOT IN DETAIL / 2016
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01Connectivity
4 / 4 indicators
Internet users, count
Mobile subscriptions
Fixed broadband
02Settlement
3 / 3 indicators
Urban population by residence
Urban permanent residents
Urban household registration (hukou)
Household registration answers a different question from permanent residence. Do not substitute or subtract these rates as the same indicator.
03Demography
5 / 5 indicators
Resident population
2 source variantsContemporary mainland NBS count and retrospective World Bank country series coexist; their scope and vintage are not collapsed.
Fertility
Annual population growth
Natural population increase
Births minus deaths per thousand is not annual population growth including migration and statistical adjustments.
Life expectancy at birth
04Research & innovation
4 / 4 indicators
R&D expenditure
R&D expenditure, amount
Nominal spending is in different currencies; no direct France–China amount comparison is supplied.
Resident patent applications
Domestic invention-patent applications accepted
Administrative domestic invention-patent applications accepted are not interchangeable with WIPO resident applications.
05Diplomatic reach
4 / 5 indicators
Embassies
Consular posts
Permanent representations / other missions
Total diplomatic posts
Countries with diplomatic relations
Not supplied for 2016
06Military & strategy
3 / 5 indicators
Military personnel quoted by Maxi Atlas
Not supplied for 2016
Personnel rank quoted by Maxi Atlas
Not supplied for 2016
Military expenditure
2006 uses constant 2005 USD and 2016 uses current USD. Do not calculate a cross-year spending change until the price basis is harmonised.
Military expenditure / GDP
SIPRI spending rank
07Trade & flows
12 / 12 indicators
Trade openness, goods + services
Merchandise exports
Merchandise imports
Export share · Germany
Export share · United States
Export share · Hong Kong
Export share · Japan
Export share · South Korea
Import share · United States
Import share · Japan
Import share · South Korea
Import share · Other Asia, n.e.s.
08Energy dependency
1 / 1 indicators
Net energy imports
09Cultural reach
5 / 6 indicators
Confucius Institutes / Classrooms, combined
Not supplied for 2016
Confucius Institutes
Confucius Classrooms
Confucius countries / regions
Confucius registered students
Confucius teachers
KEY FACTS / 2016
- Capital
- Beijing
- Calling code
- +86
- Writing system
- Chinese characters; simplified characters in mainland public/official use
- Demonym
- Chinese
- Time structure
- UTC+8 official national standard time
Key facts are recorded separately from the indicator series. Attribution: supplied China 2016 notes, “Structured Key Facts”.
03DATA CONTRACT
Every date keeps its history.
2016 is the valid period; source publication and reconstruction dates vary. Open a metric to inspect its source, scope and any comparability caveat.
41indicators available
9source records
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