Editing Jiangxi (section)

==Demographics==
[[File:She ethnic townships in Jiangxi.png|thumb|150px|She ethnic townships in Jiangxi]]
The population of Jiangxi is approximately 39.66 million.<ref>{{cite web |url=http://news.xinhuanet.com/english/2003-04/02/content_815398.htm |title=:: Xinhuanet |publisher=News.xinhuanet.com |date=2003-04-02 |access-date=2012-12-24 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20131115033139/http://news.xinhuanet.com/english/2003-04/02/content_815398.htm |archive-date=2013-11-15 |url-status=dead }}</ref>{{Update needed|date=December 2024}} 99.73% of that is [[Han Chinese]], predominantly [[Gan-speaking people|Gan]] and [[Hakka people|Hakka]]. [[Ganzhou]], Jiangxi's largest city, has an especially large number of Hakka. Ethnic minorities include the [[She people]].

Jiangxi and [[Henan]] both have the most unbalanced gender ratios of all Chinese provinces. Based on a 2009 ''[[British Medical Journal]]'' study, the ratio is over 140 boys for every 100 girls in the 1–4 age group.<ref>{{cite journal|url=http://www.bmj.com/content/338/bmj.b1211.full |title=China's excess males, sex selective abortion, and one child policy: analysis of data from 2005 national intercensus survey |year=2009 |journal=BMJ |doi=10.1136/bmj.b1211 |access-date=2012-12-24|last1=Zhu |first1=W. X. |last2=Lu |first2=L. |last3=Hesketh |first3=T. |volume=338 |pages=b1211 |pmid=19359290 |pmc=2667570 }}</ref>{{Update needed|date=December 2024}}
{{Historical populations
|title       = Historical population
|align = none | cols = 2
|footnote    = 
|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}}</ref>  |23,988,000
|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}}</ref> |20,323,000
|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}}</ref> |15,805,000
|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}}</ref> |12,507,000
|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> |16,772,865
|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> |21,068,019
|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> |33,184,827
|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> |37,710,281
|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> |40,397,598
|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> |44,567,475
}}

In 2019 the most-common surname in Jiangxi was [[Liu (surname)|Liú]] (刘), the only province where this was the case. Overall Liu is the fourth-most common surname in the country.<ref>{{Cite web|url=http://www.bjnews.com.cn/news/2020/01/20/676822.html|title = 新京报 - 好新闻，无止境}}</ref>

=== Religion ===
{{See also|Christianity in Jiangxi}}

{{Pie chart
|caption = Religion in Jiangxi<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 folk religion]]
|value1 = 24.05
|color1 = FireBrick
|label2 = [[Christianity]]
|value2 = 2.31
|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;
* And people not bounded to, nor practicing any, institutional or diffuse religion.}}
|value3 = 73.64
|color3 = Honeydew
}}
The predominant religions in Jiangxi are [[Chinese folk religion]]s, [[Taoism|Taoist traditions]] and [[Chinese Buddhism]]. According to surveys conducted in 2007 and 2009, 24.05% of the population believes and is involved in [[Chinese ancestral religion|ancestor veneration]], while 2.31% of the population identifies as Christian.<ref name="Wang2015" />{{Update needed|date=December 2024}}

The reports didn't give figures for other types of religion; 73.64% 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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File:Shangdi and Doumu altar in Chengxu Temple, Zhouzhuang, Jiangxi.jpg|Altar of [[Shangdi]] and [[Doumu]] at the [[Chengxu Temple]] (Taoist) in [[Zhouzhuang]].
File:Nanchang Youmin Si 20120712-03.jpg|Youmin Buddhist Temple in [[Nanchong]].
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