少数民族人口分布变动与人口迁移形势——2000年第五次人口普查数据分析

The Distributional Change and the Migration Situation of the Ethnic Population: An Analysis of the Data from China's Fifth Census of 2000

本文基于第五次人口普查资料,分析了近年中国少数民族的人口分布特点和变动趋势:主要 分布在西部地区,人口分布重心继续向西移动;大多数少数民族都高度集中于传统区域内,但集中 程度已趋于减小;农业人口占绝对优势,城镇化水平很低;人口迁移流动率较低,人口分布相对凝固化。

This paper analyzes the distributional change and the migration situation of the ethnicpopulation on the basis of the data from the fifth census of China. There are following tendencies: the center of gravity for the ethnic population distribution is keeping moving toward the Western China where the majorityof the ethnic population havebeen living; the most of the ethnic minorities are still livingin their traditional areas to a great extent, while the extent is decreasing gradually; the agriculturalpopulation is the preponderantcomponent and the level of urbanization is relative low at these areas; the liquidity ratio of the migration is low and the change of the population distribution is slow.