I am from Kezhou. According to statistics in 2003, there were 430,000 people. Now I am afraid there are 550,000---650,000 people. After all, this is not a Feng Shui treasure land and there will not be too many people. However, on the website, in 2011 The data is 525,600 people.
This is what the official said! ! !
As of the end of 2011, the total population of Kezhou was 554,281, an increase of 280,234 people compared with 1978, an increase of 102.3% (the same below), and an average annual growth of 2.2%. Among them: the male population is 281,562 and the female population is 272,719. The total population sex ratio (the ratio of men to women, taking women as 100) has increased from 100.31:100 in 1978 to 103.24:100.
In 2011, there were 9,238 births and a birth rate of 17.43‰, down 13.15 percentage points from 30.58‰ in 1978; there were 2,179 deaths and a mortality rate of 4.11‰, down 7.28 percentage points from 11.39‰ in 1978. Thousand points; the natural population growth rate is 13.32‰, which is 5.87 thousand points lower than the 19.19‰ in 1978.
The prefecture’s urban permanent population reached 164,767, accounting for 29.8% of the total permanent population, an increase of 16.7 percentage points from 13.1% in 1978; the rural permanent population was 388,055, accounting for 70.2% of the total permanent population, compared with 13.1% in 1978. It dropped 16.7 percentage points from 86.9% in 1978.
The urbanization rate increased from 13.1% in 1978 to 29.8% in 2011, an increase of 16.7 percentage points.