An Analysis of the Basic Population Structure of Shanghai Municipality

Knowledge about the special characteristics of population growth in a region or a country and the regularities of their change provides a reliable basis for making plans for the national economy. Aside from counting the amount of population, calculating the rate of demographic growth, analyzing its natural and mechanical changes, and finding out its distribution, further studies are needed to determine the different compositions of population. Only by doing thus can we present an overall picture of the population status and its regularities and reflect the proportion of population growth to the growth of different branches of the national economy. In light of the above, we have compiled this material designed to analyze the changes in Shanghai's population structure over the last thirty years in the four aspects of age structure, sex composition, urban and rural composition, and labor and employment structure.