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Daily Mail: China's population SHRINKS for the first time in 70 years, despite scrapping its one-child policy - leaving the country facing a 'demographic crisis'
* One expert says births fell by 2.5m in 2018 in the country of 1.4bn citizens
* Since 2016 there has been a two-child policy in an attempt to boost growth
* A labour shortage could severely impact the country's fragile welfare system
* China could lose out to India in the race to overcome US economic dominance
China's population has shrunk for the first time in 70 years despite scrapping the controversial one-child policy as experts warn of a 'demographic crisis.'
The number of live births nationwide in 2018 fell by 2.5 million year-on-year, contrary to a predicted increase of 790,000 births, according to analysis by US-based academic Yi Fuxian.
The world's most populous nation of some 1.4 billion for decades limited most families to one child in an attempt to keep population growth sustainable.
But since 2016 it has allowed couples to have two children in response to concerns about an ageing society and shrinking workforce.
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WNU Editor: If the economic slowdown continues in China, and most analysts believe that it will, families in China will not be motivated to have more kids. The culture of having children has changed in China, where now most families prefer having only one child. On a side note, in the 1980s I met one of the economists in China who helped promote the government's one-child policy. In his opinion, he believed that the ideal population number for China that would insure stable growth and prosperity was 600,000,000.
6 comments:
How many Chinese emigrated from China? I bet a lot of wealthy Chinese are jumping ship before the dragon gets slain.
The wealthy in China are like the wealthy in many nations: they bank offshore to conceal wealth...many Americans do this too
No reasons given for the drop but miscarriages and abortions can have a serious impact.
India will soon have larger population than China. America is not replacing those who die and we now turn back those who want to come here.
Doesn’t help when asking a girl out can be interpreted as an unwanted sexual encounter and end a life or career. Liberalism is a social disease that is destroying us and replacing our population with those who seek to take advantage of us while we are at our weakest is not a viable solution.
Unlike the wealthy in many nations the Chinese are sending their children to universities all over the world. Do you have a clue as to how many 20 yr old Chinese students own multi million dollar properties in and around Vancouver. It’s disgusting
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