China's population is currently estimated at 1.3 billion people. This number continues to rapidly climb with twice the number of births per day (that is 54,477), as deaths (that is 21,403 dying daily). That rate of growth would be like watching Nebraska, North Dakota, South Dakota, Iowa, Kansas, Missouri, Oklahoma, and Kentucky double in size in a year. Home to 20% of the world's population, China has more lost people in this one country than any country in the world. There are four times more lost people in China than the population of the United States.

Han Chinese make up 92% of the population, with ethnolinguistic people groups comprising the remainder. Sixty-five percent (65%) of the population lives in rural areas. The Chinese government is encouraging rural dwellers to move to the cities. In the next ten years, officials predict 300 million people will move to the cities. Today, there are 150 cities with more than one million in population, but each year twenty more cities cross into the one million-plus category.