National Statistics in China

The official statistics can be obtained from the website, National Bureau of Statistics of China (中華人民共和國國家統計局). Website: http://www.stats.gov.cn/english/. All the database is still at the trial state. I don't think we have the access to the actual data yet, especially for the English Version. It's pretty hard to find the National Database focus on Chinese Health related perspective. Therefore, It could be difficult to study the trend of the disease prevalence at the Chinese population level, nor to say compare between different ethnicity.

China Today has summarized some statistics in the website (http://www.chinatoday.com/data/data.htm). They included the official and unofficial statistics, for reference use only.

They have published some basic descriptive statistics on their website. There are no public available data to download for detail comparison or analysis.

They generate some comparison between US and China,

A Statistical Comparison  Between China and United States

Development Indicators	China	United States
Population	1.31 billion	301 million
GDP	$2.7 trillion ($2,054 per person)	$13.2 trillion ($43,950 per person)
Taxes Collected	$486 billion ($370 per person)	2.5 trillion ($8,297 per person)
Balance of Trade	$177.5 billion (surplus)	$225 billion (deficit)
Cell-phone Users	461 million (35 per 100 people)	219 million (73 per 100 people)
Cable TV Subscribers	139 million (11 per 100 people)	110 million (37 per 100 people)
Airline Passengers	160 million	658 million
Foreign Visitors	22 million (9% from USA)	51 million (1% from China)
Private Cars	11.5 million (9 per 1000 people)	136.4 million (450 per 1000 people)
Deaths in Traffic Accidents	89,445	48,433
Practicing Doctors	1.97 million (15 per 10,000 people)	745,000 (25 per 10,000 people)
Feature Films Produced	330	699

All $ US Currency/  Source  TIME Mar. 19. 2007

Population statistics in very general level about China could be,

Population

Most recent census shows that China has 1.37 billion people (click for information of the most recent census and related figures) China has 37 million more males than females Population hits 1.30756 bln by 2005: Survey.

Some Health/Medical related statistics could be,

Illegal Drug Related Statistics

Illegal Drug Users: 1.14 million (2004)

Health and Related Statistics

Smoking Population in China: More than one quarter of China's population (about 300 million adults - smok, and tobacco kills one million Chinese people every year. The number of new HIV/AIDS infections in China was about 70,000 in 2005, with 25,000 deaths reported across the country.

Some other statistics at the bottom of the page,

Health and Medical: The total number of hospitals and clinics: 320,000, the total number of doctors: 1.39 million, nurses and technicans: 1,05 million. About AIDS in China: First case found in 1985, and by now 173 had died, and HIV infections: 400,000, two third of them are regular drug users (July 1999 data).

High Blood Pressure (Hypertension) population in China: 100 million.

Nearsightedness (Myopia) According to the most recent survey, about 50% Chinese teenagers are suffered from nearsightedeness compared with 15% in 1970's. (Source: www.cnd.org Feb. 25, 2000)

Smoking Population: 350 million (2003 data), female share about 10% of the total smoking population. (compared with 1% in 1978 and 4% in 1996).

Smoking: (based on data collected in January 2000, by China Consumers Association) Smoking population in China: 350 million (about 50 million smokers are teen-agers), shared about 1/4 of total smoking population in the world. 62% Chinese male and 3.8% Chinese female smoking. 37.6% of total Chinese population smoking.

For those smokers in China, 16 cigarettes on average per day; and the expense for smoking shared 15% of their income.The average age of first smoking in China is 25 years old, 3 years earlier than that of 1984.

The total smoking population in China increased 3.5% compared with the statisitcs in the year of 1984 (Health Ministry of PRC Nov. 99 data.)

Population of Drug Addict: 791,000. (data of 2005 ). New drug addict population increased 22,000 in 2004.

Suicide & Suicide Rate: 2002 statistic shows there are 287,000 people commit suicide in China every year (about 22 per 100 thousand population), which is 42% of total suicide in the world. (Data of 2001)

We are looking forward more national statistics/data related to general population health could be released. We may study the trend for certain disease and better estimate/compare prevalence for the disease. This may help on allocation of the facilities, e.g. what kind of utility/medicine/health care should be borrowed from  developed countries.