The Sixth National Population Census of the People's Republic of China, also referred to as the 2010 Chinese Census, was conducted by the National Bureau of Statistics

National Bureau of Statistics of China

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 of the People's Republic of China

People's Republic of China

China , officially the People's Republic of China , is the most populous country in the world, with over 1.3 billion citizens. Located in East Asia, the country covers approximately 9.6 million square kilometres...

 with a zero hour of November 1, 2010.

Census procedure

Census procedure was governed by the Regulations on National Population Census and the Circular of the State Council on the Conduct of the 6th National Population Census. The census cost 700 million RMB

Renminbi

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Total population

It found the total population of Mainland China

Mainland China

Mainland China, the Chinese mainland or simply the mainland, is a geopolitical term that refers to the area under the jurisdiction of the People's Republic of China . According to the Taipei-based Mainland Affairs Council, the term excludes the PRC Special Administrative Regions of Hong Kong and...

 to be 1,339,724,852 persons, an increase of 73,899,804 persons from the previous census conducted in 2000. This represented a growth rate of 5.84% over the decade, and an average annual growth rate of 0.57%. The population undercount rate of the census was estimated at 0.12%. The census also listed the population of Hong Kong Special Administrative Region as 7,097,600 persons, the population of Macau Special Administrative Region as 552,300 persons, and the population of Taiwan

Taiwan

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 as 23,162,123 persons.

Population composition and demographics

The census found a total of 401,517,330 family households in Mainland China, with an average of 3.10 persons per household, a decrease of 0.34 persons from the 2000 census. 51.27% of the population is male, and 48.73% is female, giving a male to female ratio of 105.20 men for every 100 women, a decrease from the 2000 figure of 106.74. 49.68% of the population resided in urban areas, and 50.32% resided in rural areas, an increase of 13.46% in the proportion of the urban population. 261,386,075 people had lived in a place different from their household registration for at least six months, with 221,426,652 of these living in a different city from their registration.

16.60% of the population was aged 0-14, 70.14% was aged 15-59, and 13.26% were aged 60 or over. This represented a decrease of 6.29% in the share of the population in the youngest age group, and increases of 3.36% and 2.93% for the 15-59 and 60+ shares, respectively. 91.51% of the population was of the Han Chinese

Han Chinese

Han Chinese are an ethnic group native to China and are the largest single ethnic group in the world.Han Chinese constitute about 92% of the population of the People's Republic of China , 98% of the population of the Republic of China , 78% of the population of Singapore, and about 20% of the...

 nationality, and 8.49% was of other ethnic groups. The Han population increased by 5.74%, and the population of other groups increased by a combined 6.92%.

Educational attainment

The census found that, in Mainland China, 119,636,790 people had completed higher education, 187,985,979 had completed only senior secondary education, 519,656,445 had completed only junior secondary education, 358,764,003 had completed only primary education, and 54,656,573 were illiterate. Since 2000, out of every 100,000 people, the number with higher education has increased from 3,611 to 8,930, the number with senior secondary education has increased from 11,146 to 14,032, the number with junior secondary education increased from 33,961 to 38,788, and the number of people with only primary education decreased from 35,701 to 26,779. The illiteracy rate declined from 6.72% to 4.08%.

Administrative region	Completed higher education	Completed higher education (%)	For every 100,000 people higher education	Completed senior secondary education	Some senior secondary education (%)	Completed senior secondary education (%)	Completed junior secondary education	Some junior secondary education (%)	Completed junior secondary education (%)	Completed primary education	Some primary education (%)	Completed primary education (%)	Illiterate	Illiterate (%)	Illiteracy rate (%)
National total	119,637	8.93	8,930	187,986	14.03	22.96	519,656	38.79	61.75	358,764	26.78	88.53	54,657	4.08	4.89
Beijing Beijing Beijing , also known as Peking , is the capital of the People's Republic of China and one of the most populous cities in the world, with a population of 19,612,368 as of 2010. The city is the country's political, cultural, and educational center, and home to the headquarters for most of China's...	6,178	31.50	31,501	4,162	21.22	52.72	6,157	31.39	84.12	1,953	9.96	94.07	333	1.70	1.86
Shanghai Shanghai Shanghai is the largest city by population in China and the largest city proper in the world. It is one of the four province-level municipalities in the People's Republic of China, with a total population of over 23 million as of 2010...	5,053	21.95	21,952	4,826	20.97	42.92	8,393	36.46	79.38	3,116	13.54	92.91	631	2.74	3.00
Tianjin Tianjin ' is a metropolis in northern China and one of the five national central cities of the People's Republic of China. It is governed as a direct-controlled municipality, one of four such designations, and is, thus, under direct administration of the central government...	2,262	17.48	17,480	2,672	20.65	38.13	4,936	38.15	76.28	2,206	17.05	93.33	271	2.10	2.33
Liaoning Liaoning ' is a province of the People's Republic of China, located in the northeast of the country. Its one-character abbreviation is "辽" , a name taken from the Liao River that flows through the province. "Níng" means "peace"...	5,234	11.96	11,965	6,469	14.79	26.75	19,829	45.33	72.08	9,365	21.41	93.49	844	1.93	2.18
Jiangsu Jiangsu ' is a province of the People's Republic of China, located along the east coast of the country. The name comes from jiang, short for the city of Jiangning , and su, for the city of Suzhou. The abbreviation for this province is "苏" , the second character of its name...	8,507	10.81	10,815	12,698	16.14	26.96	30,418	38.67	65.63	19,017	24.18	89.80	2,995	3.81	4.38
Xinjiang Xinjiang Xinjiang is an autonomous region of the People's Republic of China. It is the largest Chinese administrative division and spans over 1.6 million km2...	2,320	10.64	10,635	2,526	11.58	22.22	7,874	36.10	58.31	6,560	30.08	88.39	516	2.36	2.98
Shaanxi Shaanxi ' is a province in the central part of Mainland China, and it includes portions of the Loess Plateau on the middle reaches of the Yellow River in addition to the Qinling Mountains across the southern part of this province...	3,940	10.56	10,556	5,888	15.77	26.33	14,981	40.14	66.46	8,741	23.42	89.88	1,398	3.74	4.39
Inner Mongolia Inner Mongolia Inner Mongolia is an autonomous region of the People's Republic of China, located in the northern region of the country. Inner Mongolia shares an international border with the countries of Mongolia and the Russian Federation...	2,522	10.21	10,208	3,737	15.13	25.33	9,689	39.22	64.55	6,280	25.42	89.97	1,005	4.07	4.74
Jilin Jilin Jilin , is a province of the People's Republic of China located in the northeastern part of the country. Jilin borders North Korea and Russia to the east, Heilongjiang to the north, Liaoning to the south, and Inner Mongolia to the west...	2,716	9.89	9,890	4,632	16.87	26.76	11,553	42.07	68.83	6,607	24.06	92.88	527	1.92	2.18
Hubei Hubei ' Hupeh) is a province in Central China. The name of the province means "north of the lake", referring to its position north of Lake Dongting...	5,456	9.53	9,533	9,502	16.60	26.13	22,676	39.62	65.75	13,091	22.87	88.62	2,619	4.58	5.31
Zhejiang Zhejiang Zhejiang is an eastern coastal province of the People's Republic of China. The word Zhejiang was the old name of the Qiantang River, which passes through Hangzhou, the provincial capital...	5,078	9.33	9,330	7,381	13.56	22.89	19,964	36.68	59.57	15,685	28.82	88.39	3,061	5.62	6.48
Ningxia Ningxia Ningxia, formerly transliterated as Ningsia, is an autonomous region of the People's Republic of China. Located in Northwest China, on the Loess Plateau, the Yellow River flows through this vast area of land. The Great Wall of China runs along its northeastern boundary...	577	9.15	9,152	785	12.45	21.60	2,121	33.65	55.26	1,879	29.83	85.08	392	6.22	7.92
Heilongjiang Heilongjiang For the river known in Mandarin as Heilong Jiang, see Amur River' is a province of the People's Republic of China located in the northeastern part of the country. "Heilongjiang" literally means Black Dragon River, which is the Chinese name for the Amur. The one-character abbreviation is 黑...	3,474	9.07	9,067	5,743	14.99	24.06	17,272	45.08	69.14	9,225	24.08	93.22	788	2.06	2.34
Shanxi Shanxi ' is a province in Northern China. Its one-character abbreviation is "晋" , after the state of Jin that existed here during the Spring and Autumn Period....	3,114	8.72	8,721	5,619	15.73	24.45	16,115	45.13	69.58	7,805	21.85	91.43	762	2.13	2.57
Shangdong	8,329	8.69	8,694	13,323	13.91	22.60	38,468	40.16	62.76	23,912	24.96	87.72	4,757	4.97	5.89
Chongqing Chongqing Chongqing is a major city in Southwest China and one of the five national central cities of China. Administratively, it is one of the PRC's four direct-controlled municipalities , and the only such municipality in inland China.The municipality was created on 14 March 1997, succeeding the...	2,493	8.64	8,642	3,811	13.21	21.86	9,514	32.98	54.84	9,747	33.79	88.63	1,239	4.30	5.17
Qinghai Qinghai Qinghai ; Oirat Mongolian: ; ; Salar:) is a province of the People's Republic of China, named after Qinghai Lake...	485	8.62	8,616	587	10.43	19.04	1,428	25.37	44.42	1,984	35.27	79.68	576	10.23	12.94
Fujian Fujian ' , formerly romanised as Fukien or Huguing or Foukien, is a province on the southeast coast of mainland China. Fujian is bordered by Zhejiang to the north, Jiangxi to the west, and Guangdong to the south. Taiwan lies to the east, across the Taiwan Strait...	3,085	8.36	8,361	5,119	13.88	22.24	13,978	37.89	60.12	10,995	29.80	89.92	900	2.44	2.89
Guangdong Guangdong Guangdong is a province on the South China Sea coast of the People's Republic of China. The province was previously often written with the alternative English name Kwangtung Province...	8,567	8.21	8,214	17,807	17.07	25.29	44,760	42.91	68.20	23,944	22.96	91.16	2,042	1.96	2.36
Hainan Hainan Hainan is the smallest province of the People's Republic of China . Although the province comprises some two hundred islands scattered among three archipelagos off the southern coast, of its land mass is Hainan Island , from which the province takes its name...	674	7.77	7,768	1,272	14.67	22.43	3,620	41.74	64.17	1,972	22.74	86.91	354	4.08	5.11
Hunan Hunan ' is a province of South-Central China, located to the south of the middle reaches of the Yangtze River and south of Lake Dongting...	4,989	7.59	7,595	10,129	15.42	23.01	25,963	39.53	62.54	17,594	26.79	89.33	1,754	2.67	3.24
Gansu Gansu ' is a province located in the northwest of the People's Republic of China.It lies between the Tibetan and Huangtu plateaus, and borders Mongolia, Inner Mongolia, and Ningxia to the north, Xinjiang and Qinghai to the west, Sichuan to the south, and Shaanxi to the east...	1,923	7.52	7,520	3,245	12.69	20.21	7,983	31.21	51.42	8,313	32.50	83.92	2,223	8.69	10.62
Hebei Hebei ' is a province of the People's Republic of China in the North China region. Its one-character abbreviation is "" , named after Ji Province, a Han Dynasty province that included what is now southern Hebei...	5,243	7.30	7,296	9,132	12.71	20.00	31,903	44.40	64.40	17,720	24.66	89.06	1,877	2.61	3.14
Jiangxi Jiangxi ' is a southern province in the People's Republic of China. Spanning from the banks of the Yangtze River in the north into hillier areas in the south, it shares a border with Anhui to the north, Zhejiang to the northeast, Fujian to the east, Guangdong to the south, Hunan to the west, and Hubei to...	3,052	6.85	6,847	5,493	12.33	19.17	16,842	37.79	56.96	13,373	30.01	86.97	1,394	3.13	4.00
Anhui Anhui Anhui is a province in the People's Republic of China. Located in eastern China across the basins of the Yangtze River and the Huai River, it borders Jiangsu to the east, Zhejiang to the southeast, Jiangxi to the south, Hubei to the southwest, Henan to the northwest, and Shandong for a tiny...	3,985	6.70	6,697	6,410	10.77	17.47	22,619	38.01	55.49	16,629	27.95	83.43	4,965	8.34	10.17
Sichuan Sichuan ' , known formerly in the West by its postal map spellings of Szechwan or Szechuan is a province in Southwest China with its capital in Chengdu...	5,368	6.68	6,675	9,045	11.25	17.92	28,057	34.89	52.81	27,847	34.63	87.44	4,377	5.44	6.56
Henan Henan Henan , is a province of the People's Republic of China, located in the central part of the country. Its one-character abbreviation is "豫" , named after Yuzhou , a Han Dynasty state that included parts of Henan...	6,016	6.40	6,398	12,423	13.21	19.61	39,923	42.46	62.07	22,668	24.11	86.18	3,991	4.25	5.37
Guangxi Guangxi Guangxi, formerly romanized Kwangsi, is a province of southern China along its border with Vietnam. In 1958, it became the Guangxi Zhuang Autonomous Region of the People's Republic of China, a region with special privileges created specifically for the Zhuang people.Guangxi's location, in...	2,751	5.98	5,978	5,079	11.03	17.01	17,842	38.76	55.78	14,581	31.68	87.45	1,249	2.71	3.47
Yunnan Yunnan Yunnan is a province of the People's Republic of China, located in the far southwest of the country spanning approximately and with a population of 45.7 million . The capital of the province is Kunming. The province borders Burma, Laos, and Vietnam.Yunnan is situated in a mountainous area, with...	2,656	5.78	5,778	3,850	8.38	14.15	12,631	27.48	41.63	19,944	43.39	85.02	2,770	6.03	7.60
Tibet Tibet Autonomous Region The Tibet Autonomous Region , Tibet or Xizang for short, also called the Xizang Autonomous Region is a province-level autonomous region of the People's Republic of China , created in 1965....	165	5.51	5,507	131	4.36	9.87	386	12.85	22.72	1,098	36.59	59.31	—	—	—
Guizhou Guizhou ' is a province of the People's Republic of China located in the southwestern part of the country. Its provincial capital city is Guiyang.- History :...	1,839	5.29	5,292	2,530	7.28	12.57	10,351	29.79	42.36	13,681	39.37	81.74	3,039	8.74	11.69

Population distribution

Rank	Administrative region	Population as of 2000 Census	Population as of 2010 Census	Numerical change	Proportion 2000 Census	Proportion 2010 Census
1	Guangdong Province Guangdong Guangdong is a province on the South China Sea coast of the People's Republic of China. The province was previously often written with the alternative English name Kwangtung Province...	85,225,007	104,303,132	19,078,125	6.83%	7.79%
2	Shandong Province Shandong ' is a Province located on the eastern coast of the People's Republic of China. Shandong has played a major role in Chinese history from the beginning of Chinese civilization along the lower reaches of the Yellow River and served as a pivotal cultural and religious site for Taoism, Chinese...	89,971,789	95,793,065	5,821,276	7.17%	7.15%
3	Henan Province Henan Henan , is a province of the People's Republic of China, located in the central part of the country. Its one-character abbreviation is "豫" , named after Yuzhou , a Han Dynasty state that included parts of Henan...	91,236,854	94,023,567	2,786,713	7.31%	7.02%
4	Sichuan Province Sichuan ' , known formerly in the West by its postal map spellings of Szechwan or Szechuan is a province in Southwest China with its capital in Chengdu...	82,348,296	80,418,200	1,930,096	6.58%	6.00%
5	Jiangsu Province Jiangsu ' is a province of the People's Republic of China, located along the east coast of the country. The name comes from jiang, short for the city of Jiangning , and su, for the city of Suzhou. The abbreviation for this province is "苏" , the second character of its name...	73,043,577	78,659,903	5,616,326	5.88%	5.87%
6	Hebei Province Hebei ' is a province of the People's Republic of China in the North China region. Its one-character abbreviation is "" , named after Ji Province, a Han Dynasty province that included what is now southern Hebei...	66,684,419	71,854,202	5,169,783	5.33%	5.36%
7	Hunan Province Hunan ' is a province of South-Central China, located to the south of the middle reaches of the Yangtze River and south of Lake Dongting...	63,274,173	65,683,722	2,409,549	5.09%	4.90%
8	Anhui Province Anhui Anhui is a province in the People's Republic of China. Located in eastern China across the basins of the Yangtze River and the Huai River, it borders Jiangsu to the east, Zhejiang to the southeast, Jiangxi to the south, Hubei to the southwest, Henan to the northwest, and Shandong for a tiny...	58,999,948	59,500,510	500,562	4.73%	4.44%
9	Hubei Province Hubei ' Hupeh) is a province in Central China. The name of the province means "north of the lake", referring to its position north of Lake Dongting...	59,508,870	57,237,740	2,271,130	4.76%	4.27%
10	Zhejiang Province Zhejiang Zhejiang is an eastern coastal province of the People's Republic of China. The word Zhejiang was the old name of the Qiantang River, which passes through Hangzhou, the provincial capital...	45,930,651	54,426,891	8,496,240	3.69%	4.06%
11	Guangxi Zhuang Autonomous Region Guangxi Guangxi, formerly romanized Kwangsi, is a province of southern China along its border with Vietnam. In 1958, it became the Guangxi Zhuang Autonomous Region of the People's Republic of China, a region with special privileges created specifically for the Zhuang people.Guangxi's location, in...	43,854,538	46,026,629	2,172,091	3.55%	3.44%
12	Yunnan Province Yunnan Yunnan is a province of the People's Republic of China, located in the far southwest of the country spanning approximately and with a population of 45.7 million . The capital of the province is Kunming. The province borders Burma, Laos, and Vietnam.Yunnan is situated in a mountainous area, with...	42,360,089	45,966,239	3,606,150	3.39%	3.43%
13	Jiangxi Province Jiangxi ' is a southern province in the People's Republic of China. Spanning from the banks of the Yangtze River in the north into hillier areas in the south, it shares a border with Anhui to the north, Zhejiang to the northeast, Fujian to the east, Guangdong to the south, Hunan to the west, and Hubei to...	40,397,598	44,567,475	4,169,877	3.27%	3.33%
14	Liaoning Province Liaoning ' is a province of the People's Republic of China, located in the northeast of the country. Its one-character abbreviation is "辽" , a name taken from the Liao River that flows through the province. "Níng" means "peace"...	41,824,412	43,746,323	1,921,911	3.35%	3.27%
15	Heilongjiang Province Heilongjiang For the river known in Mandarin as Heilong Jiang, see Amur River' is a province of the People's Republic of China located in the northeastern part of the country. "Heilongjiang" literally means Black Dragon River, which is the Chinese name for the Amur. The one-character abbreviation is 黑...	36,237,576	38,312,224	2,074,648	2.91%	2.86%
16	Shaanxi Province Shaanxi ' is a province in the central part of Mainland China, and it includes portions of the Loess Plateau on the middle reaches of the Yellow River in addition to the Qinling Mountains across the southern part of this province...	35,365,072	37,327,378	1,962,306	2.85%	2.79%
17	Fujian Province Fujian ' , formerly romanised as Fukien or Huguing or Foukien, is a province on the southeast coast of mainland China. Fujian is bordered by Zhejiang to the north, Jiangxi to the west, and Guangdong to the south. Taiwan lies to the east, across the Taiwan Strait...	34,097,947	36,894,216	2,796,269	2.74%	2.75%
18	Shanxi Province Shanxi ' is a province in Northern China. Its one-character abbreviation is "晋" , after the state of Jin that existed here during the Spring and Autumn Period....	32,471,242	35,712,111	3,240,869	2.60%	2.67%
19	Guizhou Province Guizhou ' is a province of the People's Republic of China located in the southwestern part of the country. Its provincial capital city is Guiyang.- History :...	35,247,695	34,746,468	501,227	2.78%	2.59%
20	Municipality of Chongqing Chongqing Chongqing is a major city in Southwest China and one of the five national central cities of China. Administratively, it is one of the PRC's four direct-controlled municipalities , and the only such municipality in inland China.The municipality was created on 14 March 1997, succeeding the...	30,512,763	28,846,170	1,666,593	2.44%	2.15%
21	Jilin Province Jilin Jilin , is a province of the People's Republic of China located in the northeastern part of the country. Jilin borders North Korea and Russia to the east, Heilongjiang to the north, Liaoning to the south, and Inner Mongolia to the west...	26,802,191	27,462,297	660,106	2.16%	2.05%
22	Gansu Province Gansu ' is a province located in the northwest of the People's Republic of China.It lies between the Tibetan and Huangtu plateaus, and borders Mongolia, Inner Mongolia, and Ningxia to the north, Xinjiang and Qinghai to the west, Sichuan to the south, and Shaanxi to the east...	25,124,282	25,575,254	450,972	2.02%	1.91%
23	Inner Mongolia Autonomous Region Inner Mongolia Inner Mongolia is an autonomous region of the People's Republic of China, located in the northern region of the country. Inner Mongolia shares an international border with the countries of Mongolia and the Russian Federation...	23,323,347	24,706,321	1,382,974	1.88%	1.84%
24	Municipality of Shanghai Shanghai Shanghai is the largest city by population in China and the largest city proper in the world. It is one of the four province-level municipalities in the People's Republic of China, with a total population of over 23 million as of 2010...	16,407,734	23,019,148	6,611,414	1.32%	1.72%
25	Xinjiang Uygur Autonomous Region Xinjiang Xinjiang is an autonomous region of the People's Republic of China. It is the largest Chinese administrative division and spans over 1.6 million km2...	18,459,511	21,813,334	3,353,823	1.52%	1.63%
26	Municipality of Beijing Beijing Beijing , also known as Peking , is the capital of the People's Republic of China and one of the most populous cities in the world, with a population of 19,612,368 as of 2010. The city is the country's political, cultural, and educational center, and home to the headquarters for most of China's...	13,569,194	19,612,368	6,043,174	1.09%	1.46%
27	Municipality of Tianjin Tianjin ' is a metropolis in northern China and one of the five national central cities of the People's Republic of China. It is governed as a direct-controlled municipality, one of four such designations, and is, thus, under direct administration of the central government...	9,848,731	12,938,224	3,089,493	0.79%	0.97%
28	Hainan Province Hainan Hainan is the smallest province of the People's Republic of China . Although the province comprises some two hundred islands scattered among three archipelagos off the southern coast, of its land mass is Hainan Island , from which the province takes its name...	7,559,035	8,671,518	1,112,483	0.62%	0.65%
29	Ningxia Hui Autonomous Region Ningxia Ningxia, formerly transliterated as Ningsia, is an autonomous region of the People's Republic of China. Located in Northwest China, on the Loess Plateau, the Yellow River flows through this vast area of land. The Great Wall of China runs along its northeastern boundary...	5,486,393	6,301,350	814,957	0.44%	0.47%
30	Qinghai Province Qinghai Qinghai ; Oirat Mongolian: ; ; Salar:) is a province of the People's Republic of China, named after Qinghai Lake...	4,822,963	5,626,722	803,759	0.41%	0.42%
31	Tibet Autonomous Region Tibet Autonomous Region The Tibet Autonomous Region , Tibet or Xizang for short, also called the Xizang Autonomous Region is a province-level autonomous region of the People's Republic of China , created in 1965....	2,616,329	3,002,166	385,837	0.21%	0.22%
—	Military	2,498,600	2,300,000	198,600	—	—
—	Residence Difficult to Determine	—	4,649,985	—	—	—
—	National total (excluding below)	1,245,110,826	1,339,724,852	94,614,026	100%	100%
*	Hong Kong Special Administrative Region Hong Kong Hong Kong is one of two Special Administrative Regions of the People's Republic of China , the other being Macau. A city-state situated on China's south coast and enclosed by the Pearl River Delta and South China Sea, it is renowned for its expansive skyline and deep natural harbour...	6,708,389	7,061,200	352,811	—	—
*	Macau Special Administrative Region Macau Macau , also spelled Macao , is, along with Hong Kong, one of the two special administrative regions of the People's Republic of China...	431,500	552,300	120,800	—	—
*	Taiwan Area Republic of China The Republic of China , commonly known as Taiwan , is a unitary sovereign state located in East Asia. Originally based in mainland China, the Republic of China currently governs the island of Taiwan , which forms over 99% of its current territory, as well as Penghu, Kinmen, Matsu and other minor...	22,276,672	23,162,123	885,451	—	—

Foreign nationals and residents of Hong Kong, Macau and Taiwan

The census also recorded 593,832 foreign nationals, 234,829 residents of Hong Kong SAR, 21,201 residents of Macau SAR, and 170,283 residents of Taiwan residing in Mainland China, a total of 1,020,145 additional persons. 605,821 of these were male, and 414,324 were female. Of the foreign nationals, 120,750 were from the Republic of Korea, 71,493 were from the United States

United States

The United States of America is a federal constitutional republic comprising fifty states and a federal district...

, 66,159 were from Japan

Japan

Japan is an island nation in East Asia. Located in the Pacific Ocean, it lies to the east of the Sea of Japan, China, North Korea, South Korea and Russia, stretching from the Sea of Okhotsk in the north to the East China Sea and Taiwan in the south...

, 39,776 were from Myanmar

Myanmar

Burma , officially the Republic of the Union of Myanmar , is a country in Southeast Asia. Burma is bordered by China on the northeast, Laos on the east, Thailand on the southeast, Bangladesh on the west, India on the northwest, the Bay of Bengal to the southwest, and the Andaman Sea on the south....

, 36,205 were from Vietnam

Vietnam

Vietnam – sometimes spelled Viet Nam , officially the Socialist Republic of Vietnam – is the easternmost country on the Indochina Peninsula in Southeast Asia. It is bordered by China to the north, Laos to the northwest, Cambodia to the southwest, and the South China Sea –...

, 19,990 were from Canada

Canada

Canada is a North American country consisting of ten provinces and three territories. Located in the northern part of the continent, it extends from the Atlantic Ocean in the east to the Pacific Ocean in the west, and northward into the Arctic Ocean...

, 15,087 were from France

France

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, 15,051 were from India

India

India , officially the Republic of India , is a country in South Asia. It is the seventh-largest country by geographical area, the second-most populous country with over 1.2 billion people, and the most populous democracy in the world...

, 14,446 were from Germany

Germany

Germany , officially the Federal Republic of Germany , is a federal parliamentary republic in Europe. The country consists of 16 states while the capital and largest city is Berlin. Germany covers an area of 357,021 km2 and has a largely temperate seasonal climate...

, and 13,286 were from Australia

Australia

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. The remaining 181,589 were from other countries.