According to the National Bureau of Statistics, the population at the end of 2022 is 8,50,000 less than the previous year. The bureau counts the population of mainland China only, excluding Hong Kong, Macao and the self-governing Taiwan, as well as foreign residents.
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most populous country in the world China facing a demographic crisis. after more than 6 decades population of china A decline has been registered. This thing has been revealed from the official figures. The population of China had started decreasing since last year itself.
According to the National Bureau of Statistics, the population at the end of 2022 is 8,50,000 less than the previous year. The bureau counts the population of mainland China only, excluding Hong Kong, Macao and the self-governing Taiwan, as well as foreign residents.
India will beat China
The bureau said on Tuesday that the country’s population stood at 1.411.75 billion with the birth of 9.56 million people against the death of 1.041 million people. Of these, 72.206 crore are men and 68.969 crore are women. China has long been the world’s most populous country, but India is likely to overtake it soon.
The last time China’s population declined was in the 1960s. At the time, the country was suffering from the worst famine in its modern history, caused by the disastrous agricultural policy of Mao Zedong known as the Great Leap Forward.
One-child policy removed in 2016
In 2016, China ended the strict “one-child policy” implemented in the 1980s due to fear of overpopulation. After this, in 2021, they started giving permission to have three children. But despite this, China failed to deal with the demographic crisis. “Chinese people are also getting used to smaller families because of the decades-old one-child policy,” Xiujian Peng, a researcher at Australia’s Victoria University, told AFP. Apart from this, the increasing cost of living as well as the increasing number of women in the workforce and the demand for higher education are also major reasons for the decline in population.
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