As China raises interest rates for the third time in four months to fight inflation, here are the numbers keeping China's economy swimming along
1.3bn – China’s population as at 2009.
10.3pc – China’s GDP growth in 2010.
$183.1bn (£113.4bn) – China’s trade surplus in 2010, a decline of 6.4pc compared with the previous year.
6.06pc – China’s official one-year lending rate, up 25 basis points from 5.81pc. China last raised interest rates on Christmas Day last year.
3pc – China’s official deposit rate.
4.6pc – China’s rate of inflation in December, down from a 28-month high of 5.1pc the month before. Inflation for 2010 as a whole was 3.3pc.
7.2pc – Official food price inflation in 2010.
73 years – Life expectancy of someone born in China in 2008, up from 71.3 years in 2000, and 46.6 years in 1960.
4.1pc – China's unemployment rate as at the end of December 2010.
42m – The projected population of China's newly-planned 'mega-city'. If projections are correct, the city would be 26 times bigger than the Greater London area and twice the size of the entire country of Wales.
94pc – Literacy rate of people aged 15+ in China. This compares with 65.5pc in 1982.
$36.4bn – Amount of new loans the biggest state-controlled commercial lenders gave out in 2010, much of it for property development.
70pc – Increase in sales of land-use rights to developers in 2010.
6.4pc – Amount property prices rose in 2010.
1m – Number of people living in underground bunkers in Beijing.
14.8pc – Increase in retail sales in China during 2010.
39 – Average age of Chinese millionaires, according to the Wall Street Journal.
8.4pc – Average annual pay increase at multinational companies in China last year, according to a report by Hewitt Associates
1m – Number of Chinese tourists who visited the US during 2010.
500bn yuan (£47.3bn) – the amount of direct economic losses caused by extreme weather in China in 2010, according to the chief of the National Climate Center.
Source: World Bank, National Bureau of Statistics – China, Bloomberg
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