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‘China had 850,000 fewer people than over the previous year…’
Communist China announced its first overall population decline in six decades, while people are more likely to grow old than to get born.
The National Bureau of Statistics reported that, at the end of 2022, China had 850,000 fewer people than over the previous year, not counting the populations of Hong Kong, Macao and foreign residents, according to the New York Post.
In a Tuesday briefing, the bureau said that China now has a total of 1.411.75 billion people, with 9.56 million births against 10.41 million deaths.
Because the Chinese government implemented the strict one-child policy that only officially ended in 2016, the Chinese were forced to have only one child, a boy, to carry on the family name. If a woman got pregnant with a girl, the baby was killed. That resulted in men continuing to outnumber women by 722.06 million to 689.69 million.
After abandoning the policy, CCP tried to encourage families to have more than one child but failed, since it is too expensive to raise children in China’s big cities.
