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Projected population growth in China is 7.6% between 2000 and 2050. That's 104th out of 141 nations listed. It's current annual rate stands at 0.64% according to 2005 figures (143 of 195 nations listed)

Urban population growth stood at 2.95% in 2005 (58th of 195)
Rural population growth by contrast was negative. -0.89% to be precise.

The policy has let to some cases of infanticide, mainly in rural areas, particularly of female babies.

This link shows the gender distribution of the total world population:

http://www.nationmaster.com /encyclopedia/Image:Sex-ratio-total-population-per-country-smooth.png">http://www.nationmaster.com /encyclopedia/Image:Sex-ratio-total-population-per-country-smooth.png

While this one shows the same but only for those aged less than 15:

http://www.nationmaster.com /encyclopedia/Image:Sex-ratio-below-15-per-country-smooth.png">http://www.nationmaster.com /encyclopedia/Image:Sex-ratio-below-15-per-country-smooth.png

Red is male. Blue is female. China has become more masculine and now has the highest ratio of males to females in the world, although the statistics do not themselves give reasons. The imbalance may also be due to such things as under-reporting, particularly in rural areas, but sex selective abortion and infanticide seem likely to be part of the reason.

All of the above data came from a variety of sources, collated by nationmaster: http://www.nationmaster.com

Infanticide? Yikes!