SOCIOLOGICAL INFORMATION: POPULATION STATISTICS, TSINGTAO

• Document Type: CREST
• Collection: General CIA Records
• Document Number (FOIA) /ESDN (CREST): CIA-RDP82-00457R001600520001-0
• Release Decision: RIPPUB
• Original Classification: C
• Document Page Count: 1
• Document Creation Date: December 15, 2016
• Document Release Date: March 15, 2001
• Sequence Number: 1
• Publication Date: June 29, 1948
• Content Type: REPORT

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COUNTRY China
CONFIDENTIAL.
SUBJECT Sociological Information: Population
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some 90,000 lived within the city proper in refugee camps set T:p
by the t'unicinal Governrsent, and about 160,000 lived in the miter
areas of the city.
Of the 848,721 residents, 435,072 are children between the area of
one and eighteen. Among these, 151,875 are destitute or hor.ieless.
Statistics, Taingtao
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DATE DISTR. 29 Jae 1948
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SUPPLEMENT TO
REPORT NO.
The Social Affairs Bureau of Teingtao, upon instructions from the t iuis&*r
of Social Affairs in flanking, recently released the following statistics
regarding the r pulation in Tsingtao
(a) As of 27 April 1948 the total residents population was 848,721.
(b) In addition, there were approximately, 250,000 refugees. Of these,
2. The hip^heet pre-war population totr_'- for ^a sinTtao was 579,445, in June 1937.
This was all-Inclusive as there cwera no refugee grouTns at that tine
3. By PAebruary 1938 the population hn.d dropped to 306,728, according to the first
population total Published by thr. Japanese Puppet Government ith_er. established.
in Tatrtgtao. By I January 1939 the population had increased to 451,198.
4. The nursber of refugees in Tsingtao has grown steadily since April 1946, when
rvs,t .ata.ce chowe3, a refugee population of 1,262. A year later this figure had
grown to 51,202, and by April 1948 it had reached approximately 250,000.
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o their de ndents, who constitute an addition l 6,000 persona. The city is
serious l9 o -ero o rde .with more than, twice the normal po~ralation. Many believe
that the present overcrovd.thg is all part of the Con mniet scheme for creating
Internal problems in Tsiz _tao by forcing and encor'aging a n ass riovemeut of
refugees into the city.)
This document Is hereby regraded to
CONFIDENTIAL in accordance with the
letter of 16 October 1073 from the
Director of Central Inte!lgence to the
Archivist of the United States.
Next Review Date: 2008
STATE [NAVY 4 I$ NSR?i
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