Births in China dropped by more than 500,000 last year to just over 9 million in total, accelerating the decline in the country’s population as women shrugged off the government’s exhortations to reproduce.
The number of newborns has gone into free fall over the past several years. Official figures released Wednesday showed that China had fewer than half the number of births in 2023 than the country did in 2016, after China abolished the one-child policy. The latest number points to a fertility rate—the number of children a woman has over her lifetime—that is close to 1.0, a level considered by demographers as “ultralow.”
Wondering, how to get busloads of migrants from Texas to China...
China: Employment in agriculture
https://www.theglobaleconomy.com/China/Employment_in_agriculture/
China, even with half its population, will still be China.
Native Americans’ birth-rate is not much better, so we instead allow a flood of 3rd world illegals to boost our democrat party ranks, cheap-labor pool and Neo-marxist conversion of the American republic.
If China will still be China, what will America be?
The reports of the death of China have been greatly exaggerated...by the CCP.
I remember watching a documentary on PBS decades ago, about the one child policy. The government appointed women to go around in the villages and relentlessly nag women who were pregnant with a second child, to get abortions. Many women would relent, because the pressure was unremitting, invading every aspect of their lives, at home, at work, in the marketplace, socially, etc. And of course, there was the charge that they were being bad citizens if they didn’t submit, which was probably the biggest threat.
“China is a serious threat to America’s dominance in the world, and when America’s dominance collapses, so does America’s lovely standard of living.”
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We must dominate the world so that all citizens can someday own a 75” HD television! /s
One child policy will bring down China. Mrs Mao has a great legacy
Unintended consequences from their one child policy?
I wonder what China will do to try to encourage marriage and family? Since they are a totalitarian government they can do things, such as restrictions on abortion and birth control.
They could grant various benefits to families with more than 1 or 2 children. And they can do things by decree because they are totalitarian.
The reality is, nobody knows China’s actual numbers on anything. Things could be better, things could be worse.
Anyone attempting to tell the truth ends up going on holiday.