Tibet_Demographics_Population

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Historically, the population of Tibet consisted of primarily ethnic Tibetans. Other ethnic groups in Tibet include Menba, Lhoba, Mongols and Hui. According to tradition the original ancestors of the Tibetan people, as represented by the six red bands in the Tibetan flag, are: the Se, Mu, Dong, Tong, Dru and Ra. The issue of the proportion of the Han Chinese population in Tibet is a politically sensitive one. The Tibetan Government-in-Exile says that the People's Republic of China has actively swamped Tibet with Han Chinese migrants in order to alter Tibet's demographic makeup, while the People's Republic of China has denied this. The death toll in Tibet since the invasion of the PLA in 1950 has been estimated at a median of 600,000.

The PRC gives the number of Tibetans in Tibet Autonomous Region as 2.4 million, as opposed to 190,000 non-Tibetans, and the number of Tibetans in all Tibetan autonomous entities combined (slightly smaller than the Greater Tibet claimed by exiled Tibetans) as 5.0 million, as opposed to 2.3 million non-Tibetans. In the TAR itself, much of the Han population is to be found in Lhasa. Population control policies like the one-child policy only apply to Han Chinese, not to minorities such as Tibetans. Jampa Phuntsok, chairman of the TAR, has also said that the central government has no policy of migration into Tibet due to its harsh high-altitude conditions, that the 6% Han in the TAR is a very fluid group mainly doing business or working, and that there is no immigration problem.
 * ~ Major ethnic groups in Greater Tibet by region, 2000 census. ||
 * ~  ||~ Total ||||~ Tibetans ||||~ Han Chinese ||||~ others ||
 * Tibet Autonomous Region: || 2,616,329 || 2,427,168 || **92.8%** || 158,570 || 6.1% || 30,591 || 1.2% ||
 * - Lhasa PLC || 474,499 || 387,124 || **81.6%** || 80,584 || 17.0% || 6,791 || 1.4% ||
 * - Chamdo Prefecture || 586,152 || 563,831 || **96.2%** || 19,673 || 3.4% || 2,648 || 0.5% ||
 * - Lhokha Prefecture || 318,106 || 305,709 || **96.1%** || 10,968 || 3.4% || 1,429 || 0.4% ||
 * - Shigatse Prefecture || 634,962 || 618,270 || **97.4%** || 12,500 || 2.0% || 4,192 || 0.7% ||
 * - Nagchu Prefecture || 366,710 || 357,673 || **97.5%** || 7,510 || 2.0% || 1,527 || 0.4% ||
 * - Ngari Prefecture || 77,253 || 73,111 || **94.6%** || 3,543 || 4.6% || 599 || 0.8% ||
 * - Nyingtri Prefecture || 158,647 || 121,450 || **76.6%** || 23,792 || 15.0% || 13,405 || 8.4% ||
 * Qinghai Province: || 4,822,963 || 1,086,592 || 22.5% || 2,606,050 || **54.0%** || 1,130,321 || 23.4% ||
 * - Xining PLC || 1,849,713 || 96,091 || 5.2% || 1,375,013 || **74.3%** || 378,609 || 20.5% ||
 * - Haidong Prefecture || 1,391,565 || 128,025 || 9.2% || 783,893 || **56.3%** || 479,647 || 34.5% ||
 * - Haibei AP || 258,922 || 62,520 || 24.1% || 94,841 || 36.6% || 101,561 || **39.2%** ||
 * - Huangnan AP || 214,642 || 142,360 || **66.3%** || 16,194 || 7.5% || 56,088 || 26.1% ||
 * - Hainan AP || 375,426 || 235,663 || **62.8%** || 105,337 || 28.1% || 34,426 || 9.2% ||
 * - Golog AP || 137,940 || 126,395 || **91.6%** || 9,096 || 6.6% || 2,449 || 1.8% ||
 * - Gyêgu AP || 262,661 || 255,167 || **97.1%** || 5,970 || 2.3% || 1,524 || 0.6% ||
 * - Haixi AP || 332,094 || 40,371 || 12.2% || 215,706 || **65.0%** || 76,017 || 22.9% ||
 * Tibetan areas in Sichuan province ||
 * - Aba AP || 847,468 || 455,238 || **53.7%** || 209,270 || 24.7% || 182,960 || 21.6% ||
 * - Garzê AP || 897,239 || 703,168 || **78.4%** || 163,648 || 18.2% || 30,423 || 3.4% ||
 * - Muli AC || 124,462 || 60,679 || **48.8%** || 27,199 || 21.9% || 36,584 || 29.4% ||
 * Tibetan areas in Yunnan province ||
 * - Dêqên AP || 353,518 || 117,099 || 33.1% || 57,928 || 16.4% || 178,491 || **50.5%** ||
 * Tibetan areas in Gansu province ||
 * - Gannan AP || 640,106 || 329,278 || **51.4%** || 267,260 || 41.8% || 43,568 || 6.8% ||
 * - Tianzhu AC || 221,347 || 66,125 || 29.9% || 139,190 || **62.9%** || 16,032 || 7.2% ||
 * Total for Greaer Tibet: ||
 * With Xining and Haidong || 10,523,432 || 5,245,347 || **49.8%** || 3,629,115 || 34.5% || 1,648,970 || 15.7% ||
 * Without Xining and Haidong || 7,282,154 || 5,021,231 || **69.0%** || 1,470,209 || 20.2% || 790,714 || 10.9% ||

This table includes all Tibetan 'autonomous entities' in the People's Republic of China, plus Xining PLC and Haidong P. The latter two are included to complete the figures for Qinghai province, and also because they are claimed as parts of Greater Tibet by the Government of Tibet in exile.

P =Prefecture; AP= Autonomous prefecture; PLC =Prefecture-level city; AC= Autonomous county Excludes members of the People's Liberation Army in active service. Source: Department of Population, Social, Science and Technology Statistics of the National Bureau of Statistics of China and Department of Economic Development of the State Ethnic Affairs Commission of China