The Chinese Communist Party’s National Bureau of Statistics reported on Tuesday that it had documented a decline in its population of about 850,000 people in 2022.
among Chinese millennials – who have adopted a “lying flat” attitude of failing to build families, seek promotions at work, or exhibit any ambition that could be used to the benefit of the Communist Party – has resulted in little prospects for the baby boom necessary to reverse the trend.
Some demographers predicted, using unofficial or indirect official statistics, that China began declining in population in 2020. The National Bureau of Statistics delaying the publication of its population data in 2020, following the mass deaths triggered by the Wuhan pandemic, escalated warnings of a population collapse, but the government incident that modest population growth occurred that year.
“The population in the Chinese mainland [not including occupied territories Hong Kong and Macau] recorded negative growth for the first time in 61 years, decreasing by 850,000 in 2022,” the. “In 2022, the number of births was 9.56 million with a birth rate of 6.77 per thousand, marking the first time since 1950 that new births have fallen below 10 million and the third year the country’s birth rate has fallen below 1 percent, data from the NBS showed.
The last time a population decline occurred was in 1962, the tail end of Mao Zedong’s Great Leap Forward, a communist famine and purge that killedThe new statistics showed that the country was home to about 32 million more Chinese men than women, a slight improvement in the ratio from the 34 million more men than women documented in recent years.
Similarly, another “expert,” researcher Su Hainan, said population collapse was a “natural result of social and economic development” and compared it to the shrinking in population growth in the West .“It’s unquestionable that China will not see population growth from now on, as an endless period of population decline began in 2022,” demographer He Yafu
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