Posted on 01/17/2023 9:37:51 AM PST by SeekAndFind
China’s population fell for the first time in six decades last year as the nation’s population of 1.4 billion declined by about 850,000.
Short term, this is just a blip on the radar. But China also is afflicted with a rapidly aging population, which means that China is very likely to get old before it gets rich.
“China’s demographic and economic outlook is much bleaker than expected. China will have to adjust its social, economic, defense and foreign policies,” said demographer Yi Fuxian.
“Economic growth will have to depend more on productivity growth,” added Zhiwei Zhang, chief economist at Pinpoint Asset Management.
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China’s birth rate last year was just 6.77 births per 1,000 people, down from a rate of 7.52 births in 2021 and marking the lowest birth rate on record.
The number of Chinese women of childbearing age, which the government defines as aged 25 to 35, fell by about 4 million, Kang said.
The death rate, the highest since 1974 during the Cultural Revolution, was 7.37 deaths per 1,000 people, which compares with a rate of 7.18 deaths in 2021.
Contrast those numbers with the U.S., where our births per thousand people were 12.01 and deaths per thousand were 6.98. Eventually, with fewer and fewer productive workers to support China’s aging population, a demographic crisis will overwhelm the state’s ability to cope.
The culprit was the Communists’ eagerness for social engineering with their “one-child policy.” for nearly 40 years.
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Much of the demographic downturn is the result of China’s one-child policy imposed between 1980 and 2015 as well as sky-high education costs that have put many Chinese off having more than one child or even having any at all.
The one-child policy and a traditional preference for boys have also created a deep gender imbalance. The latest data shows China with around 722 million males compared to 690 million females. The imbalance, which is more pronounced in rural areas, has led to fewer families being formed in recent years.
The data was the top trending topic on Chinese social media after the figures were released on Tuesday. One hashtag,”#Is it really important to have offspring?” had hundreds of millions of hits.
The population explosion followed by a subsequent crash was predicted in the 1950s by the famous Nobel prize winning Chinese demographer Wii Fuchum Yung
Well, that's how it worked for me.
America’s decline in childbearing citizens is MUCH more critical than China’s.
I find it fascinating how experts can agree that overpopulation spells doom for the human race, while at the same time calling any population decrease a “demographic crisis”.
Which is it?
I see what you did there. :-)
Because they are swarming into Africa, mostly as illegal aliens.
Nobody at FR wabts to hear about this, nor about how mass immigration is increasingly necessary to keep afloat a native population that refuses to reproduce at replacement levels.
They can have some of our border crossers.
Peter Zaihan explains this to Joe Rogan.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ED_yPDdqG5Y&t=20s
“The culprit was the Communists’ eagerness for social engineering with their “one-child policy.” for nearly 40 years.”
That. Plus very fast urbanization (which reduces the number of children in any culture).
China would be in demographic crisis even without the one child policy. With it, they accelerated the crisis by maybe 20 years.
Did I specify "American Citizens"?
Do you think Aborting and Contracepting ourselves into oblivion is NOT a problem?
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