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China’s Demographic Time Bomb Quickly Ticking Down Frank Chen, Asia Times, January 13, 2021 China’s declining demographics are gloomier than previously estimated, a life and death challenge for the world’s second-largest economy policymakers who have so far failed to address.  Preliminary provincial findings of a nationwide census now underway indicate that population growth in 2019 plunged to a 60-year low, despite Beijing’s move in 2016 to abandon its notorious “one-child” policy. The 14.65 million newborns recorded across China last year were a third lower than the annual average throughout the 1990s and 2000s when the strict population control policy was still in place, initial nationwide census findings show. 

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