China's birth rate fell to its lowest last year since the founding of the P...
FILE PHOTO - A boy holds an umbrella on Tiananmen Square, in Beijing, China August 27, 2019. REUTERS/Jason Lee
The country’s birth rate stood at 10.48 per thousand, the lowest since 1949, data from the National Bureau of Statistics showed on Friday. The number of babies born in 2019 dropped by about 580,000 to 14.65 million. Meanwhile, divorce rates are hitting records. In the first three quarters of 2019, about 3.1 million couples filed for divorce, compared with 7.1 million couples getting married, according to data from the Ministry of Civil Affairs.
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