The number of hospital beds for every 10,000 persons was 26, and the number of professional medical personnel per 10,000 increased to 28. The savings deposit balance hit 13.24 billion. For the secondary school, the numbers were 2.39, 2,404.7, and 124,840. The numbers for primary schools were 15.54, 4,049.1 and 176,590. By the end of 1997, Fujian s population totaled 33.32 million, ranking it eighteenth in China.
Population density is relatively high.
Fujian s population is also unevenly distributed, which is obvious in the entire province, even at the township and village levels. Most people live in coastal areas, some basins among mountains and river valleys. The province had 48 nationalities in 1990. As for different growth rates of the population, the following five phases characterize them. The sex composition of Fujian s population has the following characteristics.