A Driving Force Analysis and Forecast for Gas Consumption Demand in China

Table 3

Forecasts of independent variables.

	Dependent variable	Gas consumption (millions of cubic meters)
	Independent variables	GDP (One hundred million yuan)	Total population (one million)	Urbanization rate (%)
Forecasting Result	2012	506221.28	1357.05	52.295400
	2013	541656.77	1366.82	53.341308
	2014	579572.74	1376.66	54.408134
	2015	620142.84	1386.57	55.496297
	2016	663552.83	1396.56	56.606223
	2017	710001.53	1406.61	57.738347
	2018	759701.64	1416.74	58.893114
	2019	812880.75	1426.94	60.070976
	2020	873033.93	1437.22	61.272396