Editing Hubei (section)

== Demographics ==
{{Historical populations
|title       = Historical population
|footnote    = Wuhan (Hankou) part of Hubei Province until 1927; dissolved in 1949 and incorporated into Hubei Province.
|1912<ref>{{cite web |script-title=ja:1912年中国人口 |url=http://www.ier.hit-u.ac.jp/COE/Japanese/discussionpapers/DP97.9/fhyo2.html |access-date=6 March 2014 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20150924032922/http://www.ier.hit-u.ac.jp/COE/Japanese/discussionpapers/DP97.9/fhyo2.html |archive-date=24 September 2015 |url-status=live}}</ref>  |29,590,000
|1928<ref>{{cite web |script-title=ja:1928年中国人口 |url=http://www.ier.hit-u.ac.jp/COE/Japanese/discussionpapers/DP97.9/fhyo3.htm |access-date=6 March 2014 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20150924032924/http://www.ier.hit-u.ac.jp/COE/Japanese/discussionpapers/DP97.9/fhyo3.htm |archive-date=24 September 2015 |url-status=live}}</ref> |26,699,000
|1936–37<ref>{{cite web |script-title=ja:1936-37年中国人口 |url=http://www.ier.hit-u.ac.jp/COE/Japanese/discussionpapers/DP97.9/fhyo4.htm |access-date=6 March 2014 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20150924032925/http://www.ier.hit-u.ac.jp/COE/Japanese/discussionpapers/DP97.9/fhyo4.htm |archive-date=24 September 2015 |url-status=live}}</ref> |25,516,000
|1947<ref>{{cite web |script-title=ja:1947年全国人口 |url=http://www.ier.hit-u.ac.jp/COE/Japanese/discussionpapers/DP97.9/fhyo5.htm |access-date=6 March 2014 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20130913053600/http://www.ier.hit-u.ac.jp/COE/Japanese/discussionpapers/DP97.9/fhyo5.htm |archive-date=13 September 2013 |url-status=live}}</ref> |20,976,000
|1952<ref name="use">{{cite book |title=The Universal Standard Encyclopedia |publisher=Unicorn Publishers Inc. |year=1955 |quote=pop. (1952 est.) 21,470,000. |location=New York |volume=12 |page=4482 |editor=Joseph Laffan Morse}}</ref> |21,470,000
|1954<ref name="census1954">{{cite web |url=http://www.stats.gov.cn/tjgb/rkpcgb/qgrkpcgb/t20020404_16767.htm |script-title=zh:中华人民共和国国家统计局关于第一次全国人口调查登记结果的公报 |publisher=[[National Bureau of Statistics of China]] |url-status=dead |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20090805174810/http://www.stats.gov.cn/TJGB/RKPCGB/qgrkpcgb/t20020404_16767.htm |archive-date=2009-08-05}}</ref> |27,789,693
|1964<ref name="census1964">{{cite web |url=http://www.stats.gov.cn/tjgb/rkpcgb/qgrkpcgb/t20020404_16768.htm |script-title=zh:第二次全国人口普查结果的几项主要统计数字 |publisher=[[National Bureau of Statistics of China]] |url-status=dead |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20120914173158/http://www.stats.gov.cn/tjgb/rkpcgb/qgrkpcgb/t20020404_16768.htm |archive-date=2012-09-14}}</ref> |33,709,344
|1982<ref name="census1982">{{cite web |url=http://www.stats.gov.cn/tjgb/rkpcgb/qgrkpcgb/t20020404_16769.htm |script-title=zh:中华人民共和国国家统计局关于一九八二年人口普查主要数字的公报 |publisher=[[National Bureau of Statistics of China]] |url-status=dead |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20120510075429/http://www.stats.gov.cn/tjgb/rkpcgb/qgrkpcgb/t20020404_16769.htm |archive-date=2012-05-10}}</ref> |47,804,150
|1990<ref name="census1990">{{cite web |url=http://www.stats.gov.cn/tjgb/rkpcgb/qgrkpcgb/t20020404_16772.htm |script-title=zh:中华人民共和国国家统计局关于一九九〇年人口普查主要数据的公报 |publisher=[[National Bureau of Statistics of China]] |url-status=dead |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20120619002216/http://www.stats.gov.cn/tjgb/rkpcgb/qgrkpcgb/t20020404_16772.htm |archive-date=2012-06-19}}</ref> |53,969,210
|2000<ref name="census2000">{{cite web |url=http://www.stats.gov.cn/tjgb/rkpcgb/qgrkpcgb/t20020331_15435.htm |script-title=zh:现将2000年第五次全国人口普查快速汇总的人口地区分布数据公布如下 |publisher=[[National Bureau of Statistics of China]] |url-status=dead |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20120829052024/http://www.stats.gov.cn/tjgb/rkpcgb/qgrkpcgb/t20020331_15435.htm |archive-date=2012-08-29}}</ref> |59,508,870
|2010<ref name="census2010">{{cite web |url=http://www.stats.gov.cn/english/newsandcomingevents/t20110429_402722516.htm |title=Communiqué of the National Bureau of Statistics of People's Republic of China on Major Figures of the 2010 Population Census |publisher=[[National Bureau of Statistics of China]] |url-status=dead |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20130727021210/http://www.stats.gov.cn/english/newsandcomingevents/t20110429_402722516.htm |archive-date=2013-07-27}}</ref> |57,237,740
|2020 |57,752,557
}}
[[Han Chinese]] form the dominant ethnic group in Hubei. A considerable [[Hmong people|Miao]] and [[Tujia people|Tujia]] population live in the southwestern part of the province, especially in [[Enshi Tujia and Miao Autonomous Prefecture]].

On October 18, 2009, Chinese officials began to relocate 330,000 residents from the Hubei and [[Henan]] provinces that will be affected by the Danjiangkou Reservoir on the [[Han River (Hanshui)|Han river]]. The reservoir is part of the larger [[South-North Water Transfer Project]].<ref>[http://www.philly.com/inquirer/world_us/20091019_In_the_World.html China to resettle 330,000 people] [[The Philadelphia Inquirer]] {{Webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20091021135706/http://www.philly.com/inquirer/world_us/20091019_In_the_World.html |date=2009-10-21}}</ref>
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=== Religion ===
{{Pie chart
|caption = Religion in Hubei<ref name="Wang2015">China General Social Survey 2009, Chinese Spiritual Life Survey (CSLS) 2007. Report by: [https://baylor-ir.tdl.org/baylor-ir/bitstream/handle/2104/9326/WANG-THESIS-2015.pdf?sequence=1 Xiuhua Wang (2015, p. 15)] {{webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20150925123928/https://baylor-ir.tdl.org/baylor-ir/bitstream/handle/2104/9326/WANG-THESIS-2015.pdf?sequence=1 |date=2015-09-25 }}</ref>{{NoteTag|The data was collected by the Chinese General Social Survey (CGSS) of 2009 and by the Chinese Spiritual Life Survey (CSLS) of 2007, reported and assembled by Xiuhua Wang (2015)<ref name="Wang2015" /> in order to confront the proportion of people identifying with two similar social structures: ① Christian churches, and ② the traditional Chinese religion of the lineage (i.e. people believing and worshipping ancestral deities often organised into [[Chinese lineage associations|lineage "churches"]] and [[ancestral shrine]]s). Data for other religions with a significant presence in China (deity cults, Buddhism, Taoism, folk religious sects, Islam, et al.) was not reported by Wang.}}
|label1 = [[Chinese ancestral religion]]
|value1 = 6.5
|color1 = FireBrick
|label2 = [[Christianity]]
|value2 = 0.58
|color2 = DodgerBlue
|label3 = Other religions or not religious people{{NoteTag|This may include:
* [[Buddhism|Buddhists]];
* [[Confucianism|Confucians]];
* [[Chinese folk religion|Deity worshippers]];
* [[Taoism|Taoists]];
* Members of [[Chinese salvationist religions|folk religious sects]];
* Small minorities of [[Muslim]]s;
* People not bounded to nor practicing any institutional or diffuse religion.}}
|value3 = 92.92
|color3 = Honeydew
}}

The predominant religions in Hubei are [[Chinese folk religion]]s, [[Taoism|Taoist traditions]] and [[Chinese Buddhism]]. According to surveys conducted in 2007 and 2009, 6.5% of the population believes and is involved in [[Chinese ancestral religion|cults of ancestors]], while 0.58% of the population identifies as Christian, declining from 0.83% in 2004.<ref name="Wang2015" /> The reports did not give figures for other types of religion; 92.92% of the population may be either irreligious or involved in [[Chinese folk religion|worship of nature deities]], Buddhism, [[Confucianism]], Taoism, [[Chinese salvationist religions|folk religious sects]].

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|<gallery mode="packed" style="font-size:88%; line-height:130%">
File:Jingzhou Taihui Guan 2014.04.20 14-20-48.jpg|Taihui Taoist Temple in [[Jingzhou]]
File:Wuhan Baotong Si 2012.11.21 11-29-10.jpg|Baotong Buddhist Temple in [[Wuhan]]
File:Xiangyang Guangde Si 2013.08.23 11-27-24.jpg|Guangde Buddhist Temple in [[Xiangyang]]
File:Worship at an ancestral temple in Hong'an, Hubei, China.jpg|[[Ancestral shrine]] in [[Hong'an County|Hong'an]], [[Huanggang]]
File:Xianning-temple-under-construction-9740.jpg|Rural Buddhist community temple in [[Xianning]]
</gallery>
|}