The population in the Chinese mainland recorded negative growth for the first time in 61 years, decreasing by 850,000 in 2022, data released by the National Bureau of Statistics of China (NBS) showed. Observers said that negative population growth is the inevitable result of the country s long-term low fertility rate but the country s demographic dividend will not disappear as some pessimists claim.
China’s National Bureau of Statistics will soon release the country’s population data for 2022. Population and economic experts predicted that China’s population will see negative growth for 2022 or 2023 at the latest.