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. Author manuscript; available in PMC: 2015 Dec 1.
Published in final edited form as: Popul Dev Rev. 2014 Dec 12;40(4):695–716. doi: 10.1111/j.1728-4457.2014.00007.x

TABLE 1.

Size of the Floating Population and Share of the Intra-provincial and Inter-provincial Floating Population by Province, China, 2000 and 2010

2000 2010

Province Total (1,000) Percent intra-provincial Percent inter-provincial Total (1,000) Percent intra-provincial Percent inter-provincial
North
    Beijing 2,603 5.38 94.62 8,947 21.26 78.74
    Tianjin 791 7.08 92.92 3,891 23.12 76.88
    Hebei 2,131 56.36 43.64 4,125 65.95 34.05
    Shanxi 1,459 54.28 45.72 3,149 70.41 29.59
    Inner Mongolia 1,773 69.09 30.91 4,520 68.05 31.95
Northeast
    Liaoning 2,306 54.68 45.32 5,391 66.86 33.14
    Jilin 945 67.30 32.70 2,029 77.50 22.49
    Heilongjiang 1,794 78.43 21.57 2,813 81.99 18.01
East
    Shanghai 4,360 28.10 71.90 11,002 18.40 81.59
    Jiangsu 5,007 49.33 50.67 13,513 45.39 54.61
    Zhejiang 5,426 32.01 67.99 15,272 22.58 77.42
    Anhui 1,184 80.57 19.43 3,611 80.13 19.87
    Fujian 3,807 43.66 56.34 7,836 44.95 55.05
    Jiangxi 1,008 74.90 25.10 2,172 72.38 27.62
    Shandong 2,687 61.56 38.44 6,935 69.49 30.51
Central and south
    Henan 2,012 76.34 23.66 4,601 87.13 12.87
    Hubei 2,239 72.76 27.24 4,826 78.99 21.00
    Hunan 1,770 80.28 19.72 3,655 80.16 19.84
    Guangdong 21,054 28.45 71.55 31,324 31.37 68.63
    Guangxi 1,843 76.78 23.22 3,727 77.41 22.59
    Hainan 654 41.59 58.41 1,288 54.32 45.68
Southwest
    Chongqing 884 54.41 45.59 2,819 66.48 33.52
    Sichuan 2,748 80.49 19.51 6,870 83.57 16.43
    Guizhou 1,254 67.38 32.62 2,503 69.51 30.49
    Yunnan 2,512 53.66 46.34 3,831 67.73 32.27
    Tibet 151 29.14 70.86 262 36.86 63.14
Northwest
    Shannxi 1,041 59.08 40.92 3,272 70.22 29.78
    Gansu 717 68.20 31.80 1,551 72.09 27.91
    Qinghai 308 59.74 40.26 779 59.14 40.86
    Ningxia 367 47.68 52.32 934 60.55 39.45
    Xinjiang 1,917 26.40 73.60 2,986 40.01 59.99
China 78,752 46.14 53.86 170,614 49.67 50.33

Sources: Data for 2000 are based on Table 7-1 (p.726), PCO (2002); Data for 2010 are based on Table 7-1, p.458-459 and 1/1000 micro-data.