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The population of southwest China's Tibet Autonomous Region climbed to 2.81 million last year, up 40,000 on 2005, according to the latest report on the region's social and economic development.

The growth rate averaged 1.17 percent, with a birthrate of 1.74 percent and a death rate of 0.57 percent, said the report, jointly published by Tibet's regional bureau of statistics and a survey team of the National Bureau of Statistics.

It said the life expectancy of the regional population averaged 67 years, compared with 35.5 years in 1951, the year of Tibet's liberation.

While the report didn't give a breakdown of Tibetans as against other ethnic groups, it said the more than 2.5 million Tibetans made up 92 percent of the regional population in the most recent census in 2003.

Tibet occupies one-eighth of Chinese territory but has the smallest population, with an average of less than three people per square kilometer.

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