Yunyan district home to over 1 million permanent residents

Yunyan district in Guiyang, the capital city of Southwest China's Guizhou province, recently announced its latest population figures after the seventh national census.

Currently, the district has a permanent resident population of 1,056,819. This is 99,913 more than the population in 2010, which was 956,906, according to the sixth census conducted that year.

The new figures mark an increase of 10.4 percent, with an annual average growth rate of 1.0 percent.

Among the permanent residents, all of them live in urban areas, and the number increased by 137,935 compared with that in 2010. The rural population has dropped by 38,022.

The male population is 531,370, accounting for 50.28 percent of the total, and the female population is 525,449, accounting for 49.72 percent.

Among the permanent residents, 179,764 are aged 0-14, accounting for 17.01 percent of the total population, 724,508 are aged 15-59, accounting for 68.56 percent, and those aged 60 or above account for 14.43 percent, with a population of 152,547.

Among permanent residents, 306,105 have a college-level educational degree or above. Compared with the previous census in 2010, the number of people with a college education or higher has increased from 25,532 to 28,965 per 100,000 people.

The average number of years spent on education by permanent residents in the district has increased from 10.93 in 2010 to 11.51 in 2021.