What was the birthrate for the Uighur population in 2010 in Xinjiang, China? The 2010 birthrate for Uighur people in Xinjiang, China, was 14.85 per 1,000 people. What was the birthrate for the Uighur population in 2018 in Xinjiang, China? The birthrate for Uighur people in Xinjiang, China, in 2018 was 10.69 per 1,000 people. Has there been a drop in the birthrate for the Uighur population between 2010 and 2018 in Xinjiang, China? Yes Xinjiang region, birth rates have continued to plummet since 2017 when Uighur's birthrate was at 15.88 per 1,000 people, compared to 10.7 in 2018. Where do the Uighur population live? Uyghur, Chinese (Pinyin) Weiwu'er, also spelled Uygur or Uighur, a Turkic-speaking people of interior Asia. Uyghurs live for the most part in northwestern China, in the Xinjiang Uyghur Autonomous Region; a small number live in the Central Asian republics. There were some 10,000,000 Uyghurs in China and a combined total of at least 300,000 in Uzbekistan, Kazakhstan, and Kyrgyzstan in the early 21st century. Are Uyghurs the only inhabitants of the Xinjiang Uyghur Autonomous Region? Xinjiang - officially the Xinjiang Uygur Autonomous Region (XUAR), is an autonomous region of the People's Republic of China (PRC), located in the northwest of the country at the crossroads of Central Asia and East Asia. Being the largest province-level division of China by area and the 8th-largest country subdivision in the world, Xinjiang spans over 1.6 million square kilometres (620,000 sq mi) and has about 25 million inhabitants. - Xinjiang is home to a number of ethnic groups, including the Turkic Uyghur, Kazakhs and Kyrgyz, the Han, Tibetans, Hui, Chinese Tajiks (Pamiris), Mongols, Russians and Sibe. There are more than a dozen autonomous prefectures and counties for minorities in Xinjiang. In which areas does the highest percentage of the population belong to the Uyghur people? The 1953 Chinese census data from Xinjiang was incomplete, but it showed that 97 percent of the 1.5 million people in the city of Kashgar were Uighurs, while 99 percent of the 700,000 people in Hotan were Uighurs. How is one figure obtained from a range of yearly figures such as; yearly figures from 2010 - 2018 and what would be the latest yearly figure? The AVERAGE function measures central tendency, which is the location of the center of a group of numbers in a statistical distribution. The three most common measures of central tendency are:

    Average    This is the arithmetic mean, and is calculated by adding a group of numbers and then dividing by the count of those numbers. For example, the average of 2, 3, 3, 5, 7, and 10 is 30 divided by 6, which is 5.

If the range is 2010 - 2018, the average or overall yearly figure would be calculated by adding the 2010 - 2018 range of numbers and then dividing by the count of those numbers. 

The most recent yearly figure is the figure for the latest year, which is 2018. How is one figure obtained from a range of yearly figures such as; yearly figures from 2010 - 2018 and what would be the latest yearly figure? The AVERAGE function measures central tendency, which is the location of the center of a group of numbers in a statistical distribution. 

    Average    This is the arithmetic mean, and is calculated by adding a group of numbers and then dividing by the count of those numbers. For example, the average of 2, 3, 3, 5, 7, and 10 is 30 divided by 6, which is 5.

Therefore if the range is 2010 - 2018, the average or overall yearly figure would be calculated by adding the 2010 - 2018 range of numbers and then dividing by the count of those numbers. 

The most recent yearly figure is the figure for the latest year, which is 2018. What are the yearly birth rate figures from 2010 - 2018 for the Xinjiang areas of Kashgar and Hotan. Was the overall birth rate figure or the latest 2018 figure for this area about 12 newborns per 1,000 people? Yearly birth rates for regions of Hotan and Kashgar between 2010 - 2018. Data reported by AP News from Xinjiang Statistical Yearbooks.

Yearly figures between 2010 and 2018 (Kashgar and Hotan).

2010 - 24.27
2011 - 20.64
2012 - 20.13
2013 - 22.24
2014 - 21.77
2015 - 21.84
2016 - 19.16
2017 - 14.05
2018 - 8.17

Overall birth rate figures were around 16+ per 1000 for this date range. Latest birth rate figures for the year 2018 were 8.17 per 1000. What are the yearly birth rate figures from 2010 - 2018 for the whole of Xinjiang, and was the overall birth rate figure or the latest 2018 figure for this region about 12 newborns per 1,000 people? Yearly birth rates for the whole of Xinjiang between 2010 - 2018, data reported by AP News from Xinjiang Statistical Yearbooks.

2010 - 14.85
2011 - 14.99
2012 - 15.32
2013 - 15.84
2014 - 16.44
2015  - 15.59
2016 - 15.34
2017 - 15.88
2018 - 10.69

Overall birth rate figures were around 14.5+ per 1000 for this date range. Latest birth rate figures for the year 2018 were 10.69 per 1000. Does the claim of Uighur population birthrate statistics at "about 12 newborns per 1,000 people match official data from Xinjiang Statistical Yearbooks? No Neither overall averages of official data (Hotan and Kashgar) for the 'claim date range' or '2018' birth rate figures match the birth rate number '12 per 1000' in the claim.

In Hotan and Kashgar, where 1953 Chinese census data from Xinjiang showed that a very high percentage (99% & 97% respectively) of the population are Uighurs, the average figure for yearly birth rate per 1000 for the date range is 16+, and the latest figure is 8.17 per 1000 for 2018. - Comparitively for the whole of Xinjiang the average figure for the yearly birth rate per 1000 for the date range is 14.5+, and the latest figure is 10.69 per 1000 for 2018. Does the claim of Uighur population birthrate statistics at "about 12 newborns per 1,000 people match official data from Xinjiang Statistical Yearbooks? No Neither overall averages from official data (Hotan and Kashgar) for the 'claim date range' or '2018' birth rate figures match the birth rate number '12 per 1000' in the claim.

In Hotan and Kashgar, where 1953 Chinese census data from Xinjiang showed that a very high percentage (99% & 97% respectively) of the population are Uighurs, the average figure for yearly birth rate per 1000 for the date range is 16+, and the latest figure is 8.17 per 1000 for the year 2018. - Comparitively for the whole of Xinjiang the average figure for the yearly birth rate per 1000 for the date range is 14.5+, and the latest figure is 10.69 per 1000 for the year 2018. Does the latest data for 2018 demonstrate that the typically Uighur regions of Hotan and Kashgar (according to the 1953 census) had the regions highest birth rate? The result of the birth control campaign is a climate of terror around having children, as seen in interview after interview. Birth rates in the mostly Uighur regions of Hotan and Kashgar plunged by more than 60% from 2015 to 2018, the latest year available in government statistics. Across the Xinjiang region, birth rates continue to plummet, falling nearly 24% last year alone — compared to just 4.2% nationwide, statistics show. Does the latest data for 2018 demonstrate that the typically Uighur regions of Hotan and Kashgar (according to the 1953 census) had the regions highest birth rate? The result of the birth control campaign is a climate of terror around having children, as seen in interview after interview. Birth rates in the mostly Uighur regions of Hotan and Kashgar plunged by more than 60% from 2015 to 2018, the latest year available in government statistics. Across the Xinjiang region, birth rates continue to plummet, falling nearly 24% last year alone — compared to just 4.2% nationwide, statistics show. - Latest figures for the year 2018 show that for Hotan & Kashgar prefectures, birth rates are 8.17 per 1000 population, compared to 10.69 per 1000 for the entire Xinjiang region, and 10.94 per 1000 nationally. Therefore in the two prefectures (Hotan and Kashgar - 99% & 97% respectively) that are recorded/known to have the highest percentage of Uighurs, birth rate figures are lower than regional figures for Xinjiang as well as national birth rate figures published for China. Does the latest data for 2018 demonstrate that the typically Uighur regions of Hotan and Kashgar (according to the 1953 census) had the regions highest birth rate? The result of the birth control campaign is a climate of terror around having children, as seen in interview after interview. Birth rates in the mostly Uighur regions of Hotan and Kashgar plunged by more than 60% from 2015 to 2018, the latest year available in government statistics. Across the Xinjiang region, birth rates continue to plummet, falling nearly 24% last year alone — compared to just 4.2% nationwide, statistics show. - Latest figures for the year 2018 show that for Hotan & Kashgar prefectures, birth rates are 8.17 per 1000 population, compared to 10.69 per 1000 for the entire Xinjiang region, and 10.94 per 1000 nationally. Therefore in the two prefectures (Hotan and Kashgar - 99% & 97% respectively) that are recorded/known to have the highest percentage of the Uighur people; birth rate figures are significantly lower than regional figures for Xinjiang, as well as national birth rate figures published for China as a whole. Why has there been such a big drop in birth rates regionally in Hotan and Kashgar? Sterilizations, iuds, and mandatory birth control: the ccp's campaign to suppress uyghur birthrates in xinjiang:

Natural population growth in Xinjiang has declined dramatically; growth rates fell by 84 percent in the two largest Uyghur prefectures between 2015 and 2018, and declined further in several minority regions in 2019. For 2020, one Uyghur region set an unprecedented near-zero birth rate target: a mere 1.05 per mille, compared to 19.66 per mille in 2018. This was intended to be achieved through "family planning work."

In 2018, natural population growth plummeted: to 4.06‰ in all minority regions and 2.58‰ in Kashgar and
Hotan. - In a drastic reversal of long-standing historic trends, the declines in Uyghur population growth have occurred mainly in the countryside. For example, Keriya County in Hotan had one of Xinjiang's highest natural population growth rates in previous years, with rates being nearly double those of Hotan City. Its first marked decline occurred in 2016, but the by far most dramatic drop (to -0.49‰) took place in 2018.

In 2018, minority regions in Xinjiang also deployed mass health exams to identify family planning violations. Campaigns such as "testing all who need to be tested" (体检实现应检尽检, tijian shixian ying jian jin yian) were associated with curbing such violations (Yining City, January 22, 2019). "Zero birth control violation incidents" (违法生育零发生, weifa shengyu ling fasheng), a term that was not routinely used elsewhere in the PRC nor in Xinjiang prior to 2018, became a standard family planning target in 2018 and 2019. A particularly strict case here is Hotan Prefecture, a region with a population of 2.53 million, which in 2019 planned to have no more than exactly 21 birth control policy violations. According to
Zhaosu County's family planning work report, "zero" violations meant that all involved government units on
all levels had to sign solemn pledges promising to achieve that goal.
Between 2010 and 2018, the Uighur population had the region's highest birthrate, at about 12 newborns per 1,000 people in Xinjiang, China.
Classify the veracity of the claim based on the provided question-answer pairs.

Claim: Between 2010 and 2018, the Uighur population had the region's highest birthrate, at about 12 newborns per 1,000 people in Xinjiang, China.

Evidence: What was the birthrate for the Uighur population in 2010 in Xinjiang, China? The 2010 birthrate for Uighur people in Xinjiang, China, was 14.85 per 1,000 people. What was the birthrate for the Uighur population in 2018 in Xinjiang, China? The birthrate for Uighur people in Xinjiang, China, in 2018 was 10.69 per 1,000 people. Has there been a drop in the birthrate for the Uighur population between 2010 and 2018 in Xinjiang, China? Yes Xinjiang region, birth rates have continued to plummet since 2017 when Uighur's birthrate was at 15.88 per 1,000 people, compared to 10.7 in 2018. Where do the Uighur population live? Uyghur, Chinese (Pinyin) Weiwu'er, also spelled Uygur or Uighur, a Turkic-speaking people of interior Asia. Uyghurs live for the most part in northwestern China, in the Xinjiang Uyghur Autonomous Region; a small number live in the Central Asian republics. There were some 10,000,000 Uyghurs in China and a combined total of at least 300,000 in Uzbekistan, Kazakhstan, and Kyrgyzstan in the early 21st century. Are Uyghurs the only inhabitants of the Xinjiang Uyghur Autonomous Region? Xinjiang - officially the Xinjiang Uygur Autonomous Region (XUAR), is an autonomous region of the People's Republic of China (PRC), located in the northwest of the country at the crossroads of Central Asia and East Asia. Being the largest province-level division of China by area and the 8th-largest country subdivision in the world, Xinjiang spans over 1.6 million square kilometres (620,000 sq mi) and has about 25 million inhabitants. - Xinjiang is home to a number of ethnic groups, including the Turkic Uyghur, Kazakhs and Kyrgyz, the Han, Tibetans, Hui, Chinese Tajiks (Pamiris), Mongols, Russians and Sibe. There are more than a dozen autonomous prefectures and counties for minorities in Xinjiang. In which areas does the highest percentage of the population belong to the Uyghur people? The 1953 Chinese census data from Xinjiang was incomplete, but it showed that 97 percent of the 1.5 million people in the city of Kashgar were Uighurs, while 99 percent of the 700,000 people in Hotan were Uighurs. How is one figure obtained from a range of yearly figures such as; yearly figures from 2010 - 2018 and what would be the latest yearly figure? The AVERAGE function measures central tendency, which is the location of the center of a group of numbers in a statistical distribution. The three most common measures of central tendency are:

    Average    This is the arithmetic mean, and is calculated by adding a group of numbers and then dividing by the count of those numbers. For example, the average of 2, 3, 3, 5, 7, and 10 is 30 divided by 6, which is 5.

If the range is 2010 - 2018, the average or overall yearly figure would be calculated by adding the 2010 - 2018 range of numbers and then dividing by the count of those numbers. 

The most recent yearly figure is the figure for the latest year, which is 2018. How is one figure obtained from a range of yearly figures such as; yearly figures from 2010 - 2018 and what would be the latest yearly figure? The AVERAGE function measures central tendency, which is the location of the center of a group of numbers in a statistical distribution. 

    Average    This is the arithmetic mean, and is calculated by adding a group of numbers and then dividing by the count of those numbers. For example, the average of 2, 3, 3, 5, 7, and 10 is 30 divided by 6, which is 5.

Therefore if the range is 2010 - 2018, the average or overall yearly figure would be calculated by adding the 2010 - 2018 range of numbers and then dividing by the count of those numbers. 

The most recent yearly figure is the figure for the latest year, which is 2018. What are the yearly birth rate figures from 2010 - 2018 for the Xinjiang areas of Kashgar and Hotan. Was the overall birth rate figure or the latest 2018 figure for this area about 12 newborns per 1,000 people? Yearly birth rates for regions of Hotan and Kashgar between 2010 - 2018. Data reported by AP News from Xinjiang Statistical Yearbooks.

Yearly figures between 2010 and 2018 (Kashgar and Hotan).

2010 - 24.27
2011 - 20.64
2012 - 20.13
2013 - 22.24
2014 - 21.77
2015 - 21.84
2016 - 19.16
2017 - 14.05
2018 - 8.17

Overall birth rate figures were around 16+ per 1000 for this date range. Latest birth rate figures for the year 2018 were 8.17 per 1000. What are the yearly birth rate figures from 2010 - 2018 for the whole of Xinjiang, and was the overall birth rate figure or the latest 2018 figure for this region about 12 newborns per 1,000 people? Yearly birth rates for the whole of Xinjiang between 2010 - 2018, data reported by AP News from Xinjiang Statistical Yearbooks.

2010 - 14.85
2011 - 14.99
2012 - 15.32
2013 - 15.84
2014 - 16.44
2015  - 15.59
2016 - 15.34
2017 - 15.88
2018 - 10.69

Overall birth rate figures were around 14.5+ per 1000 for this date range. Latest birth rate figures for the year 2018 were 10.69 per 1000. Does the claim of Uighur population birthrate statistics at "about 12 newborns per 1,000 people match official data from Xinjiang Statistical Yearbooks? No Neither overall averages of official data (Hotan and Kashgar) for the 'claim date range' or '2018' birth rate figures match the birth rate number '12 per 1000' in the claim.

In Hotan and Kashgar, where 1953 Chinese census data from Xinjiang showed that a very high percentage (99% & 97% respectively) of the population are Uighurs, the average figure for yearly birth rate per 1000 for the date range is 16+, and the latest figure is 8.17 per 1000 for 2018. - Comparitively for the whole of Xinjiang the average figure for the yearly birth rate per 1000 for the date range is 14.5+, and the latest figure is 10.69 per 1000 for 2018. Does the claim of Uighur population birthrate statistics at "about 12 newborns per 1,000 people match official data from Xinjiang Statistical Yearbooks? No Neither overall averages from official data (Hotan and Kashgar) for the 'claim date range' or '2018' birth rate figures match the birth rate number '12 per 1000' in the claim.

In Hotan and Kashgar, where 1953 Chinese census data from Xinjiang showed that a very high percentage (99% & 97% respectively) of the population are Uighurs, the average figure for yearly birth rate per 1000 for the date range is 16+, and the latest figure is 8.17 per 1000 for the year 2018. - Comparitively for the whole of Xinjiang the average figure for the yearly birth rate per 1000 for the date range is 14.5+, and the latest figure is 10.69 per 1000 for the year 2018. Does the latest data for 2018 demonstrate that the typically Uighur regions of Hotan and Kashgar (according to the 1953 census) had the regions highest birth rate? The result of the birth control campaign is a climate of terror around having children, as seen in interview after interview. Birth rates in the mostly Uighur regions of Hotan and Kashgar plunged by more than 60% from 2015 to 2018, the latest year available in government statistics. Across the Xinjiang region, birth rates continue to plummet, falling nearly 24% last year alone — compared to just 4.2% nationwide, statistics show. Does the latest data for 2018 demonstrate that the typically Uighur regions of Hotan and Kashgar (according to the 1953 census) had the regions highest birth rate? The result of the birth control campaign is a climate of terror around having children, as seen in interview after interview. Birth rates in the mostly Uighur regions of Hotan and Kashgar plunged by more than 60% from 2015 to 2018, the latest year available in government statistics. Across the Xinjiang region, birth rates continue to plummet, falling nearly 24% last year alone — compared to just 4.2% nationwide, statistics show. - Latest figures for the year 2018 show that for Hotan & Kashgar prefectures, birth rates are 8.17 per 1000 population, compared to 10.69 per 1000 for the entire Xinjiang region, and 10.94 per 1000 nationally. Therefore in the two prefectures (Hotan and Kashgar - 99% & 97% respectively) that are recorded/known to have the highest percentage of Uighurs, birth rate figures are lower than regional figures for Xinjiang as well as national birth rate figures published for China. Does the latest data for 2018 demonstrate that the typically Uighur regions of Hotan and Kashgar (according to the 1953 census) had the regions highest birth rate? The result of the birth control campaign is a climate of terror around having children, as seen in interview after interview. Birth rates in the mostly Uighur regions of Hotan and Kashgar plunged by more than 60% from 2015 to 2018, the latest year available in government statistics. Across the Xinjiang region, birth rates continue to plummet, falling nearly 24% last year alone — compared to just 4.2% nationwide, statistics show. - Latest figures for the year 2018 show that for Hotan & Kashgar prefectures, birth rates are 8.17 per 1000 population, compared to 10.69 per 1000 for the entire Xinjiang region, and 10.94 per 1000 nationally. Therefore in the two prefectures (Hotan and Kashgar - 99% & 97% respectively) that are recorded/known to have the highest percentage of the Uighur people; birth rate figures are significantly lower than regional figures for Xinjiang, as well as national birth rate figures published for China as a whole. Why has there been such a big drop in birth rates regionally in Hotan and Kashgar? Sterilizations, iuds, and mandatory birth control: the ccp's campaign to suppress uyghur birthrates in xinjiang:

Natural population growth in Xinjiang has declined dramatically; growth rates fell by 84 percent in the two largest Uyghur prefectures between 2015 and 2018, and declined further in several minority regions in 2019. For 2020, one Uyghur region set an unprecedented near-zero birth rate target: a mere 1.05 per mille, compared to 19.66 per mille in 2018. This was intended to be achieved through "family planning work."

In 2018, natural population growth plummeted: to 4.06‰ in all minority regions and 2.58‰ in Kashgar and
Hotan. - In a drastic reversal of long-standing historic trends, the declines in Uyghur population growth have occurred mainly in the countryside. For example, Keriya County in Hotan had one of Xinjiang's highest natural population growth rates in previous years, with rates being nearly double those of Hotan City. Its first marked decline occurred in 2016, but the by far most dramatic drop (to -0.49‰) took place in 2018.

In 2018, minority regions in Xinjiang also deployed mass health exams to identify family planning violations. Campaigns such as "testing all who need to be tested" (体检实现应检尽检, tijian shixian ying jian jin yian) were associated with curbing such violations (Yining City, January 22, 2019). "Zero birth control violation incidents" (违法生育零发生, weifa shengyu ling fasheng), a term that was not routinely used elsewhere in the PRC nor in Xinjiang prior to 2018, became a standard family planning target in 2018 and 2019. A particularly strict case here is Hotan Prefecture, a region with a population of 2.53 million, which in 2019 planned to have no more than exactly 21 birth control policy violations. According to
Zhaosu County's family planning work report, "zero" violations meant that all involved government units on
all levels had to sign solemn pledges promising to achieve that goal.

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Classify the veracity of the claim based on the provided question-answer pairs.

Claim: Between 2010 and 2018, the Uighur population had the region's highest birthrate, at about 12 newborns per 1,000 people in Xinjiang, China.

Evidence: What was the birthrate for the Uighur population in 2010 in Xinjiang, China? The 2010 birthrate for Uighur people in Xinjiang, China, was 14.85 per 1,000 people. What was the birthrate for the Uighur population in 2018 in Xinjiang, China? The birthrate for Uighur people in Xinjiang, China, in 2018 was 10.69 per 1,000 people. Has there been a drop in the birthrate for the Uighur population between 2010 and 2018 in Xinjiang, China? Yes Xinjiang region, birth rates have continued to plummet since 2017 when Uighur's birthrate was at 15.88 per 1,000 people, compared to 10.7 in 2018. Where do the Uighur population live? Uyghur, Chinese (Pinyin) Weiwu'er, also spelled Uygur or Uighur, a Turkic-speaking people of interior Asia. Uyghurs live for the most part in northwestern China, in the Xinjiang Uyghur Autonomous Region; a small number live in the Central Asian republics. There were some 10,000,000 Uyghurs in China and a combined total of at least 300,000 in Uzbekistan, Kazakhstan, and Kyrgyzstan in the early 21st century. Are Uyghurs the only inhabitants of the Xinjiang Uyghur Autonomous Region? Xinjiang - officially the Xinjiang Uygur Autonomous Region (XUAR), is an autonomous region of the People's Republic of China (PRC), located in the northwest of the country at the crossroads of Central Asia and East Asia. Being the largest province-level division of China by area and the 8th-largest country subdivision in the world, Xinjiang spans over 1.6 million square kilometres (620,000 sq mi) and has about 25 million inhabitants. - Xinjiang is home to a number of ethnic groups, including the Turkic Uyghur, Kazakhs and Kyrgyz, the Han, Tibetans, Hui, Chinese Tajiks (Pamiris), Mongols, Russians and Sibe. There are more than a dozen autonomous prefectures and counties for minorities in Xinjiang. In which areas does the highest percentage of the population belong to the Uyghur people? The 1953 Chinese census data from Xinjiang was incomplete, but it showed that 97 percent of the 1.5 million people in the city of Kashgar were Uighurs, while 99 percent of the 700,000 people in Hotan were Uighurs. How is one figure obtained from a range of yearly figures such as; yearly figures from 2010 - 2018 and what would be the latest yearly figure? The AVERAGE function measures central tendency, which is the location of the center of a group of numbers in a statistical distribution. The three most common measures of central tendency are:

    Average    This is the arithmetic mean, and is calculated by adding a group of numbers and then dividing by the count of those numbers. For example, the average of 2, 3, 3, 5, 7, and 10 is 30 divided by 6, which is 5.

If the range is 2010 - 2018, the average or overall yearly figure would be calculated by adding the 2010 - 2018 range of numbers and then dividing by the count of those numbers. 

The most recent yearly figure is the figure for the latest year, which is 2018. How is one figure obtained from a range of yearly figures such as; yearly figures from 2010 - 2018 and what would be the latest yearly figure? The AVERAGE function measures central tendency, which is the location of the center of a group of numbers in a statistical distribution. 

    Average    This is the arithmetic mean, and is calculated by adding a group of numbers and then dividing by the count of those numbers. For example, the average of 2, 3, 3, 5, 7, and 10 is 30 divided by 6, which is 5.

Therefore if the range is 2010 - 2018, the average or overall yearly figure would be calculated by adding the 2010 - 2018 range of numbers and then dividing by the count of those numbers. 

The most recent yearly figure is the figure for the latest year, which is 2018. What are the yearly birth rate figures from 2010 - 2018 for the Xinjiang areas of Kashgar and Hotan. Was the overall birth rate figure or the latest 2018 figure for this area about 12 newborns per 1,000 people? Yearly birth rates for regions of Hotan and Kashgar between 2010 - 2018. Data reported by AP News from Xinjiang Statistical Yearbooks.

Yearly figures between 2010 and 2018 (Kashgar and Hotan).

2010 - 24.27
2011 - 20.64
2012 - 20.13
2013 - 22.24
2014 - 21.77
2015 - 21.84
2016 - 19.16
2017 - 14.05
2018 - 8.17

Overall birth rate figures were around 16+ per 1000 for this date range. Latest birth rate figures for the year 2018 were 8.17 per 1000. What are the yearly birth rate figures from 2010 - 2018 for the whole of Xinjiang, and was the overall birth rate figure or the latest 2018 figure for this region about 12 newborns per 1,000 people? Yearly birth rates for the whole of Xinjiang between 2010 - 2018, data reported by AP News from Xinjiang Statistical Yearbooks.

2010 - 14.85
2011 - 14.99
2012 - 15.32
2013 - 15.84
2014 - 16.44
2015  - 15.59
2016 - 15.34
2017 - 15.88
2018 - 10.69

Overall birth rate figures were around 14.5+ per 1000 for this date range. Latest birth rate figures for the year 2018 were 10.69 per 1000. Does the claim of Uighur population birthrate statistics at "about 12 newborns per 1,000 people match official data from Xinjiang Statistical Yearbooks? No Neither overall averages of official data (Hotan and Kashgar) for the 'claim date range' or '2018' birth rate figures match the birth rate number '12 per 1000' in the claim.

In Hotan and Kashgar, where 1953 Chinese census data from Xinjiang showed that a very high percentage (99% & 97% respectively) of the population are Uighurs, the average figure for yearly birth rate per 1000 for the date range is 16+, and the latest figure is 8.17 per 1000 for 2018. - Comparitively for the whole of Xinjiang the average figure for the yearly birth rate per 1000 for the date range is 14.5+, and the latest figure is 10.69 per 1000 for 2018. Does the claim of Uighur population birthrate statistics at "about 12 newborns per 1,000 people match official data from Xinjiang Statistical Yearbooks? No Neither overall averages from official data (Hotan and Kashgar) for the 'claim date range' or '2018' birth rate figures match the birth rate number '12 per 1000' in the claim.

In Hotan and Kashgar, where 1953 Chinese census data from Xinjiang showed that a very high percentage (99% & 97% respectively) of the population are Uighurs, the average figure for yearly birth rate per 1000 for the date range is 16+, and the latest figure is 8.17 per 1000 for the year 2018. - Comparitively for the whole of Xinjiang the average figure for the yearly birth rate per 1000 for the date range is 14.5+, and the latest figure is 10.69 per 1000 for the year 2018. Does the latest data for 2018 demonstrate that the typically Uighur regions of Hotan and Kashgar (according to the 1953 census) had the regions highest birth rate? The result of the birth control campaign is a climate of terror around having children, as seen in interview after interview. Birth rates in the mostly Uighur regions of Hotan and Kashgar plunged by more than 60% from 2015 to 2018, the latest year available in government statistics. Across the Xinjiang region, birth rates continue to plummet, falling nearly 24% last year alone — compared to just 4.2% nationwide, statistics show. Does the latest data for 2018 demonstrate that the typically Uighur regions of Hotan and Kashgar (according to the 1953 census) had the regions highest birth rate? The result of the birth control campaign is a climate of terror around having children, as seen in interview after interview. Birth rates in the mostly Uighur regions of Hotan and Kashgar plunged by more than 60% from 2015 to 2018, the latest year available in government statistics. Across the Xinjiang region, birth rates continue to plummet, falling nearly 24% last year alone — compared to just 4.2% nationwide, statistics show. - Latest figures for the year 2018 show that for Hotan & Kashgar prefectures, birth rates are 8.17 per 1000 population, compared to 10.69 per 1000 for the entire Xinjiang region, and 10.94 per 1000 nationally. Therefore in the two prefectures (Hotan and Kashgar - 99% & 97% respectively) that are recorded/known to have the highest percentage of Uighurs, birth rate figures are lower than regional figures for Xinjiang as well as national birth rate figures published for China. Does the latest data for 2018 demonstrate that the typically Uighur regions of Hotan and Kashgar (according to the 1953 census) had the regions highest birth rate? The result of the birth control campaign is a climate of terror around having children, as seen in interview after interview. Birth rates in the mostly Uighur regions of Hotan and Kashgar plunged by more than 60% from 2015 to 2018, the latest year available in government statistics. Across the Xinjiang region, birth rates continue to plummet, falling nearly 24% last year alone — compared to just 4.2% nationwide, statistics show. - Latest figures for the year 2018 show that for Hotan & Kashgar prefectures, birth rates are 8.17 per 1000 population, compared to 10.69 per 1000 for the entire Xinjiang region, and 10.94 per 1000 nationally. Therefore in the two prefectures (Hotan and Kashgar - 99% & 97% respectively) that are recorded/known to have the highest percentage of the Uighur people; birth rate figures are significantly lower than regional figures for Xinjiang, as well as national birth rate figures published for China as a whole. Why has there been such a big drop in birth rates regionally in Hotan and Kashgar? Sterilizations, iuds, and mandatory birth control: the ccp's campaign to suppress uyghur birthrates in xinjiang:

Natural population growth in Xinjiang has declined dramatically; growth rates fell by 84 percent in the two largest Uyghur prefectures between 2015 and 2018, and declined further in several minority regions in 2019. For 2020, one Uyghur region set an unprecedented near-zero birth rate target: a mere 1.05 per mille, compared to 19.66 per mille in 2018. This was intended to be achieved through "family planning work."

In 2018, natural population growth plummeted: to 4.06‰ in all minority regions and 2.58‰ in Kashgar and
Hotan. - In a drastic reversal of long-standing historic trends, the declines in Uyghur population growth have occurred mainly in the countryside. For example, Keriya County in Hotan had one of Xinjiang's highest natural population growth rates in previous years, with rates being nearly double those of Hotan City. Its first marked decline occurred in 2016, but the by far most dramatic drop (to -0.49‰) took place in 2018.

In 2018, minority regions in Xinjiang also deployed mass health exams to identify family planning violations. Campaigns such as "testing all who need to be tested" (体检实现应检尽检, tijian shixian ying jian jin yian) were associated with curbing such violations (Yining City, January 22, 2019). "Zero birth control violation incidents" (违法生育零发生, weifa shengyu ling fasheng), a term that was not routinely used elsewhere in the PRC nor in Xinjiang prior to 2018, became a standard family planning target in 2018 and 2019. A particularly strict case here is Hotan Prefecture, a region with a population of 2.53 million, which in 2019 planned to have no more than exactly 21 birth control policy violations. According to
Zhaosu County's family planning work report, "zero" violations meant that all involved government units on
all levels had to sign solemn pledges promising to achieve that goal.

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