Analysis of Factors Affecting Freight Demand Based on Input-Output Model

Table 3

China’s total population and employment forecast (2020–2050).

Year	Total population (unit: 100 million people)	Employment rate (unit: %)	Number of employees (unit: 100 million people)
2015	13.6782	56.34	7.7063
2020	14.0505	56.7	7.9666
2030	14.3203	56.91	8.1497
2040	13.8647	56.94	7.8946
2050	12.7471	56.95	7.2595

Note. The 2015 data comes from the National Bureau of Statistics of China, and the rest of the data are predicted by the author. Among them, the birth rate is assumed to be maintained at the level of 2019, and the average life expectancy is 77 years.