On April 2, the Guangdong Provincial Bureau of Statistics released data analysis that Guangdong is a province with a permanent population and a registered residence population of more than 100 million at the same time. It is expected that the permanent population of Guangdong will gradually resume stable growth in 2023. It is worth noting that Guangdong has become the only province with a birth population of over 1 million for three consecutive years and the first fertile province for five consecutive years, while maintaining its position as the largest province with a permanent resident population. According to the data of 127 million permanent residents, in 2022, Guangdong had a permanent population of 126.568 million, accounting for 8.97% of the total population of the country, and the number of permanent residents continued to rank first in the country; The registered residence of Guangdong reached 100.497 million, an increase of 1.028 million, or 1.03%, becoming a province with a permanent population and a registered residence of more than 100 million at the same time. By the end of 2022, among the permanent residents in the province, 94.654 million lived in cities and 31.914 million lived in rural areas; The proportion of urban population was 74.79%, a year-on-year increase of 0.16 percentage points. Compared with the national average over the same period, it is 9.57 percentage points higher, and continues to rank first among the provinces with the highest population urbanization rate after the three municipalities directly under the central government of Shanghai, Beijing, and Tianjin. If divided by economic region, the level of population urbanization is 87.48% in the core area of the Pearl River Delta, 61.26% and 48.04% in the east and west wings of the coastal economic belt, and 53.06% in the northern ecological development area, which is 0.24, 0.66, 1.89, and 1.44 percentage points higher than the seventh national population census in 2020. The development of population urbanization in Guangdong has continued to advance, and the differences in the level of population urbanization among regions have further narrowed. With the largest birth population in the country, Guangdong remains the most "fertile" province in terms of the size of the birth population, with the birth population leading the country. In 2022, 1052000 people were born in the province, with a birth rate of 8.30 ‰, 630000 deaths, and a mortality rate of 4.97 ‰; A natural increase of 422000 people, with a natural growth rate of 3.33 ‰. The birth rate in Guangdong is not only 1.53 percentage points higher than the national average over the same period, but also 1.59 percentage points higher than Shandong, the second largest province in population; The mortality rate remained at a relatively low level nationwide, 2.40 percentage points lower than the national average over the same period. The Guangdong Provincial Bureau of Statistics pointed out that Guangdong has become the only province with a birth population exceeding 1 million for three consecutive years, and has become the first major fertility province for five consecutive years. With the adjustment and optimization of epidemic prevention policies and the implementation of the new fertility policy, the size of Guangdong's birth population will continue to maintain the forefront of the country. Currently, Guangdong has the largest population of working age in the country with abundant labor resources. According to the data of the Seven People's Census, the working age population of Guangdong aged 16-59 accounts for 67.86% of the permanent resident population in the province, 5.59 percentage points higher than the national average. In 2022, Guangdong had a working age population of 84.751 million people aged 16-59, accounting for 66.96% of the province's permanent resident population, 4.94 percentage points higher than the national average. Guangdong's working age population accounted for 9.68% of the national working age population. From the perspective of dependency ratio of permanent residents, in 2022