Primary Taiwanese news agency Central News Agency (CNA) has published a report on the Shanghai Civil Economics and Social Development Statistics for 2024, recently released by the authorities in Shanghai. According to the official data, the city’s permanent population at the end of 2024 was 24.8026 million. Among them, permanent residents who were not born in Shanghai numbered 9.8349 million, a year-over-year decline of 237,900.
In the past year, the headcount of westerners in Shanghai significantly decreased. Due to a decreasing overall population, Shanghai’s total retail sales of consumer goods also decreased throughout the year. Over the past four years, the total reduction of the non-native-Shanghainese population living in Shanghai was 640,000. In 2024, this population fell to less than 10 million for the first time in recent history.
Source: CNA, March 26, 2025
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