The latest easing is part of an increasingly desperate effort to stir a demographic boom before China s remarkable growth story is bogged down by the healthcare and pension bills.
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June 01, 2021 20:59 IST
We are at a desirable replacement level fertility. We need to focus on stabilisation, they say
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China announced that it will allow couples to have a third child as it stares at a fast ageing population. Image used for representational purposes.
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We are at a desirable replacement level fertility. We need to focus on stabilisation, they say
China’s decision to relax its two-child norm and allow couples to have three children must serve as a warning for India that coercive population strategies can be counter-productive, say experts.
After enforcing one-child and two-child policies to control its population over the past four decades, China on Monday announced that it will allow couples to have a third child as it stares at a fast ageing population. India, on the other hand, has been toying with the idea of population control measures through a two-child norm, which found a mention in Prime Minister Nare
China Introduces Policy Easing Two-Child Limit as Births Decline
China will be allowing married couples to have up to three children now.
FILE PHOTO: Children play at a waterfront in Shekou area of Shenzhen, Guangdong province, China March 15, 2021. Photo: Reuters/David Kirton
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Beijing: China said on Monday that married couples may have up to three children, a major policy shift from the existing limit of two after recent data showed a dramatic decline in births in the world’s most populous country.
Beijing scrapped its decades-old one-child policy in 2016, replacing it with a two-child limit that failed to result in a sustained surge in births given the high cost of raising children in Chinese cities – a challenge that remains.
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The birth rate of 10.48 per thousand is the lowest since 1949
BEIJING: China could see its number of births slide below 10 million annually in the next five years if the government does not quickly abolish its policy of limiting families to two children, an expert was quoted in domestic media as saying.
China`s total population may also fall in a few years, Dong Yuzheng, director at the Guangdong Academy of Population Development, told Yicai, a Chinese financial news outlet.
The number of babies born in China fell by 580,000 to 14.65 million in 2019 and the birth rate of 10.48 per thousand was the lowest since 1949 when present methods of collating data began, according to the National Bureau of Statistics.