Government efforts to boost falling births have failed to create a baby boom and the population decline marks the first drop since the huge famine triggered by Mao’s Great Leap Forward.
China’s population shrank in 2022 for the first time in decades, the National Bureau of Statistics
on Tuesday, a shift signaling a looming demographic crisis that could have far-reaching consequences for Beijing despite government efforts to reverse the decline.Key Facts China had a population of 1.41175 billion people at the end of 2022, the National Bureau of Statistics said, down 850,000 from the year before.China’s birthrate fell to 6.77 births per 1,000 people in 2022, the bureau said, down from 7.52 the year before and the lowest since records began more than 70 years ago.
Beijing also recorded its highest mortality rate since the mid-1970s, rising to 7.37 deaths per 1,000 people and up from 7.18 in 2021. The figures, which only cover mainland China and do not count foreign residents, mark the first time China’s population has fallen since the early 1960s, when a set of disastrous economic policies known as the Great Leap Forward pushed by then-leader Mao Zedong gave rise to the
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