Investor Presentaiton
Decline in Average Household Size, 2000-2010, in persons per household (fig. 5)
Tibetan Aut. Region (TAR)
2000 6.8 persons
2010 4.2 persons
Gansu Province
2000 4.7 persons
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2010 3.5 persons
Qinghai Province
2000 5.3 persons
2010 3.5 persons
Sichuan Province
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2000 3.9 persons
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2010 2.9 persons
Yunnan Province
2000 4.6 persons
2010 3.5 persons
The average Tibetan household in the TAR
shrank from 7 to 4 people in just ten years.
The rapidly shrinking household size,
most evident in the TAR, is a major trend
tied to urbanization and the one-child family
policy in the PRC.
Another sign of urbanization is the dramatic decrease in average household sizes for all five
provinces with large Tibetan populations. In the TAR, it shrank from 6.78 persons in 2000 to
4.23 persons in 2010. In Tibetan rural and nomadic areas, the family is a "basic economic unit"
that needs enough members to carry out essential activities in livestock care, agriculture, trade,
and domestic labor. Thus the shrinking family size among Tibetans is a cause for concern.View entire presentation