China adjusts birth data for 2011 to 2019
21 May 2021, 05:18 GMT+10
Beijing [China], May 20 (ANI): After releasing its 2020 census, China is adjusting the birth data for 2011 to 2019, saying that it was based on a small sample of the total population.
China has begun revising demographic data for most of the preceding decade upward, raising concerns about the integrity of its statistics in the face of a looming population decline, reported Nikkei Asia. This comes after suspicion over how the 2020 count of children greatly exceeded the total number of babies reported born in the years prior.
The National Bureau of Statistics is working to revise such numbers as the total population, births and the urbanization rate for 2011 to 2019, said spokesperson Fu Linghui. The number of births will go up by about 1 million per year on average, he said the equivalent of a 6 per cent increase for the entire nine-year period.
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