Zhengzhou: Population grew to 12.828 M last year

On Feb 23, Zhengzhou announced its 2022 population data. Statistics show that in 2022, the total permanent population of Zhengzhou increased to 12.828 million, ranking 11th among all cities in China.

Zhengzhou is a city with net population inflow, where its total number of permanent residents keeps growing. By the end of 2022, Zhengzhou had 12.828 million permanent residents, an increase of 86,000 over the end of 2021. From the perspective of population age structure, the population between 0 and 15 years old in Zhengzhou is 2,466 million, the population between 16 and 59 years old is 8,664 million, and the population aged 60 and above is 1,698 million, accounting for 19.2%, 67.5% and 13.2% of the city's population respectively.

"Zhengzhou has good population siphoning power, which is caused by economic development factors." Wang Xintao, deputy director of the Institute for Urban and Environmental Studies at the Henan Academy of Social Sciences, said the more vibrant the economy, better public services, better development environment, more job opportunities and better quality of life, the more people will naturally move to Zhengzhou