Total population:

Anhui registered a birth rate of 11.15‰ in the year 2003, 0.05 permillage points lower than that of the previous year. The mortality was 5.2‰, up 0.03 permillage points from the previous year. The natural growth rate of the population was 5.95‰, down 0.08 permillage. At the end of 2003, the province had a total registered population of 64.1 million.

Ethnicity:

There are 59.484 million Han people, accounting for 99.37 percent of the total population. People of other ethnic groups are 376,000, accounting for 0.63 percent of the total population. In addition to the main minority ethnic group of the Hui, there are 52 other ethnic groups, including the Man, Zhuang and She.

Literacy:

There were 73 institutes of higher learning, 521 secondary technical schools, 3,820 middle schools, and 22328 primary schools with a total amount of 11.73 million students by the end of 2003.