breakdown of the population by broad age groups reveals that around 63.4 percent of the total population was in working age between 16 and 59 years in 2020. Age cohorts below 25 years were considerably smaller, although there was a slight growth trend in recent years.
As of 2020, the bulk of the Chinese population was aged between 25 and 59 years, amounting to more than half of the population. A Population distribution in China in 2020, by five-year age group
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