Talk:Demographics of China

Wiki Education assignment: Research Process and Methodology - FA22 - Sect 201 - Thu

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  This article was the subject of a Wiki Education Foundation-supported course assignment, between 21 September 2022 and 8 December 2022. Further details are available on the course page. Student editor(s): Riven3388 (article contribs).

— Assignment last updated by Riven3388 (talk) 14:10, 20 October 2022 (UTC)Reply

@Riven3388 Good luck! Tweedle (talk) 23:59, 20 October 2022 (UTC)Reply

China's population falls for first time since 1961

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China's population falls for first time since 1961 - BBC News - [1],[2]. M.Karelin (talk) 11:59, 17 January 2023 (UTC)Reply

Population of China according to ethnic group in censuses 1953–2020

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I'd recommend to remove the present 2nd column of the table named "Population of China according to ethnic group in censuses 1953–2020". Reason: The census figures give ethnicities (min-zu) which are not defined by mother-tongue! Thus, e.g. Manchu typically don't speak Manchurian language (unlike the Xibe), but Mandarin as 1st lg; large portion of Tu (Manguer) speak Tibetan as their mother-tongue, and thus both groups would fall under Sino-Tibetan language family. The Yugur form two communities which speak languages from two distinct families. Therefore, that column only introduces confusion. Moreover, leaving it out would make at least the 2010 census figures visible. For the sake of immediate visibility of latest census figures, I'd even advocate for reverting the order of the censuses columns so as to list the latest first. Most readers will be interested in the current situation and the inattentive ones might think that there is no data from 2020 added, as it looks at the first sight. Yak-indolog (talk) 05:15, 23 March 2023 (UTC)Reply

The quality of this article is surprisingly lacking

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First, the leading sentence. WHAT even is that. Look at all the other demographics articles, they all start with <country> is the #-most populated country in <continent> and #-most populated the world.

Unbelievable.

Alexysun (talk) 20:48, 14 May 2023 (UTC)Reply

Okay, I fixed it the best I could. I think it's much better now. Alexysun (talk) 21:11, 14 May 2023 (UTC)Reply