Fig. 5
From: Urban-rural differences in China’s crude death rate changes
Birth rate and the number of births in China from 1982 to 2000. Data sources: The birth rate is from China Statistical Yearbook (2021) [40]. The number of births: 1) Data for 1982, 1990, 2000, and 2010 are from population census data [33,34,35,36]; 2) Data for 1987, 1995, 2005, and 2015 are from 1% national population sample survey data [55,56,57,58]; 3) Data for 2011 to 2019 are from China Population and Employment Statistical Yearbook (2012–2020) [59,60,61,62,63,64,65,66,67]; 4) Data for 2020 comes from the Statistical Bulletin of China’s Health Development (2020) [68]