What is the most populous province in China?

Guangdong province has the largest population.

At the end of 20 19, the resident population of the whole province was1521000, an increase of 1750 over the previous year, of which the urban resident population was 82.2599 million, accounting for 7 1.40% of the resident population.

The annual birth population is1433,800, and the birth rate is12.54 ‰; The death population was 509,900, with a mortality rate of 4.46 ‰; The natural growth population was 923,800, with a natural growth rate of 8.08‰.

Guangdong historical population:

At the end of the Northern Song Dynasty, a large number of northern Han people fled to the south to avoid chaos, especially in the Southern Song Dynasty. Guangdong has accepted a large number of northern immigrants. According to the records of Yuanfeng Jiuyu in the Northern Song Dynasty, immigrants from the north accounted for as much as 39% of the total population of Guangdong at that time, and the Pearl River Delta and Hanjiang Delta had grown into another densely populated area. 12 10, the population of Guangdong was 2140,000, accounting for 1.98% of the total population in China.

Due to the war in the Yuan Dynasty, the population was once reduced. In the twenty-seventh year of Zhiyuan (1290), the population of Guangdong was 25 1.3 1, accounting for 4.27% of the total population in China. With the rapid increase of coastal population, the Pearl River Delta and Chaoshan Plain have replaced northern Guangdong as the focus of population distribution in Guangdong.

Reference to the above content: Baidu Encyclopedia-Guangzhou