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28 Apr 2021
China’s annual population report for 2020 will reveal a population decline unparalleled since the era of Mao Zedong, the
Financial Times reported Wednesday, prompting Communist Party officials to delay its publication.
China has seen a steady decline in its birth rate for the past five years, yet to be reversed by the repeal of its “one-child policy” which mandated forced abortions, infanticides, and other atrocities for decades in 2016. The Communist Party allows women to give birth to no more than two children legally now, though few appear to be taking up the opportunity. “Replacement fertility,” meaning the number of children each woman in a country must have to fully replace the currently existing population, is 2.1, slightly above the legal permissions in China.
28 Apr 2021
China’s annual population report for 2020 will reveal a population decline unparalleled since the era of Mao Zedong, the
Financial Times reported Wednesday, prompting Communist Party officials to delay its publication.
China has seen a steady decline in its birth rate for the past five years, yet to be reversed by the repeal of its “one-child policy” which mandated forced abortions, infanticides, and other atrocities for decades in 2016. The Communist Party allows women to give birth to no more than two children legally now, though few appear to be taking up the opportunity. “Replacement fertility,” meaning the number of children each woman in a country must have to fully replace the currently existing population, is 2.1, slightly above the legal permissions in China.
Chinese Birth Rate Dropped Below ‘Warning Level’ in 2020
China’s state-run
Global Times on Tuesday reported the country registered 10 million newborns in 2020, a 15-percent decline from 2019 that brought China’s birth rate well below the “warning level” demographics experts have established.
According to the
Global Times, there was some dispute between the Ministry of Public Security and the National Bureau of Statistics about precisely how many children were born in China last year, but no matter which agency gets the last word, the demographic news is not good:
There has been a declining curve of yearly new births in China 17.86 million, 17.23 million, 15.23 million and 14.65 million in 2016, 2017, 2018 and 2019 respectively, according to data released by the NBS.
China’s ministry of public security reported on Wednesday that the number of registered newborns dropped by 15 per cent in 2020 compared to the previous year.