Drop points to India becoming the world’s most populous nation
Travellers walk through a walkway, decorated with lanterns ahead of the Chinese Lunar New Year at the new Fengtai Railway Station in Beijing, China, on January 11 2023. Picture: REUTERS/TINGSHU WANGChina’s population fell last year for the first time in six decades, a historic turn that is expected to mark the start of a long period of decline in its citizen numbers with profound implications for its economy and the world.
Long-term, UN experts see China’s population shrinking by 109-million by 2050, more than triple the decline of their previous forecast in 2019. That has caused domestic demographers to lament that China will get old before it gets rich, slowing the economy as revenues drop and government debt increases due to soaring health and welfare costs.
China’s birth rate last year was just 6.77 births per 1,000 people, down from a rate of 7.52 births in 2021 and marking the lowest birth rate on record. The data was the top trending topic on Chinese social media after the figures were released on Tuesday. One hashtag, “#Is it really important to have offspring?” had hundreds of millions of hits.
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