Population
The Pearl River Delta Economic Zone encompasses 0.4 percent of the land area and 3.5 percent of the 2005 Interim Census population of the Chinese Mainland (a population of 45.5 million people), it accounted for 9.9 percent of GDP and 28.9 percent of total trade in 2005.
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