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both with one another, and also with our many allies and partners. and could one of britain s richest men become the new owner of manchester united football team? live from our studio in singapore. this is bbc news. it s newsday. hello, and welcome to the programme. we begin in china where an unwelcome milestone has been reached. the country s population fell for the first time since the 1960s, and the national birth rate also fell to the lowest it s been since data collection began, in 1949. the announcement on tuesday comes alongside one of china s worst economic performances in almost half a century the labour force is shrinking, as the country s retired population keeps growing. this also means india is expected to overtake china as the world s most populous nation later this year. let s take a look at some of the numbers. china s population last year was over 1.4 billion people, according to official data that s a decrease of 850,000 people from 2021. as for ....
and could one of britain s richest men become the new owner of manchester united football team 7 live from our studio in singapore, this is bbc news. it s newsday. hello and welcome to the program. we begin in china where an unwelcome milestone has been reached. the country s population fell for the first time since the 1960s, and the national birthrate also fell to the lowest it s been since data collection began, in 1949. the announcement on tuesday comes alongside one of china s worst economic performances in almost half a century. the labour force is shrinking, as the country s retired population keeps growing. this also means india is expected to overtake china as the world s most populous nation later this year. let s take a look at some of the numbers. china s population last year was more than 1.4 billion people, according to official data. that s a decrease of 850,000 people from 2021. as for the national birth rate, it sank to just 6.77 births per 1,000 people ....
britishvolt, collapses. in ukraine, we have a special report from the front lines near soledar and bakhmut. troops tell the bbc they desperately need western tanks to make progress on the battlefield. and belgian police reveal a key suspect in an eu corruption investigation has cut a deal with investigators. hello and welcome to the programme. we begin in china where an unwelcome milestone has been reached. the country s population fell for the first time since the 1960s and the national birth rate also fell to the lowest it s been since data collection began, in 1949. the announcement on tuesday comes alongside one of china s worst economic performances in almost half a century, its gdp expanding by 3% last year, far short of the government s target of 5.5% growth. the labour force is shrinking, as the country s retired population keeps growing. let s take a look at some of the numbers. china s population last year was over 1.4 billion people, according to official data. tha ....
Through a demographic transition where we are having sustained falls in fertility rates over time, and china s fertility levels has been below replacement levels since the 1990s. it has a profound impact on the population and you ve got fewer young people supporting an ever larger share of elderly chinese. why is this happening? talk us through the historical context of all of this. there are a number of reasons that fertility falls, initially it is about childhood mortality, as infants set by, people reduce their family size but as economies develop and modernise, we had seen that the cost of children capital shifts, so in agrarian societies children can be a source of labour. but as countries industrialise and urbanise, they become a net cost, so people want fewer children, they focus on the quality rather than the quantity of children. ....
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