China’s birth rate plunged to its lowest level since the early 1960s last year, with several provinces experiencing negative population growth for the first time in modern history, according to a newly released official report.
The China Statistical Yearbook 2022 states that only 10.6 million people were born in China in 2021, the lowest total since 1961. The country’s population grew by just 480,000, also the lowest figure in decades.
The data, published by China’s National Bureau of Statistics a few days ago, confirms earlier reports that China’s introduction of a nationwide three-child policy and a slew of other pro-natalist policies in 2021 failed to stem the country’s falling birth rate.
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