Report: Tibetan population grows fast, language education stressed

Source: Xinhua | 04-01-2009 14:46

BEIJING, April 1 (Xinhua) -- The population in China's Tibet Autonomous Region has grown rapidly over the past decades and the number of Tibetans make up more than 90 percent of the regional population, according to a report released Monday.

>>Full Text: Report on the Economic and Social Development of Tibet

Graphics shows the growth of total population and Tibetan  population between 1964 and 2008 in Tibet according to a  comprehensive report on Tibet's economic and social  development published by Beijing-based China Tibetology  Research Center on March 30, 2009.(Xinhua/Meng Lijing)

The report on Tibet's economic and social development, published by the China Tibetology Research Center, said although more and more people from the country's inland areas came to Tibet for work, the Tibetan population was still in an overwhelming majority, or more than 90 percent, of the regional population.

"The rapid growth of the regional population is a result of the rapid growth of the local Tibetan population," it said, adding that over the past decades, Tibet's population increased to 2.87 million in 2008 from 1 million in the 1950s.