It’s not a birth decline. It’s a Covid induced decline.
But, perhaps that the plan.
Odd the local component of the Tencent Army hasn’t shown up yet.
That’s got to be putting a kink in their human organ sales business.
Abortion and ‘lie flat’ have nothing to do with it?
Cut Red China’s population...and industrial production...in half and climate change is history.
9,560,000 births and 10,410,000 deaths in 2022.
If they’re admitting to a decline now, then it has already existed for a while.
What? They are down to ONLY 1.35 BILLION!!!!
(From the article):"The last time China is believed to have recorded a population decline was during the Great Leap Forward at the end of the 1950s,
Mao Zedong’s disastrous drive for collective farming and industrialization that produced a massive famine killing tens of millions of people."
"Also Tuesday, the bureau released data showing China’s economic growth fell to its second-lowest level in at least four decades last year under pressure from anti-virus controls and a real estate slump..
"The world’s No. 2 economy grew by 3% in 2022, less than half of the previous year’s 8.1%, the data showed."