The current population of Liaoning province is 40,900,000, accounting for 3.4% of the mainland's total. It ranks the twelfth in terms of population among the provinces, cities and autonomous regions. There are 21,300,000 urban residents, taking52.13% of provincial total. The implementation of the family panning policy was first introduced in 1970 aiming at controlling the growth of the population and improving the quality of population. The population growth rate remains fairly low in 1990s. At present time, the population birth rate of the province remains about 12% , and natural growth rate 6% . With the development of social economy, education and industry of medical health care, the general cultural quality and health condition is constantly improving. There 34 million people with different educational background among those who are above 6 years old, accounting for 83.1% of provincial total. 261 people out of every 10,000 are university graduates; 4, 554 with high.

　　　　　　　　　　　　　　　　　　　　　　　　　[Origin:Liaoning Government Website]