Officials announced that China’s population will begin to decline from 2025 as family sizes shrink and the population ages.
The world’s most populous country is facing a potential demographic crisis in the face of a rapidly aging workforce, a slowing economy and the slowest population growth in decades.
Authorities relaxed the strict “one child” policy in 2016, and last year allowed couples to have up to three children, but the birth rate saw a historic drop.
“The growth rate of the overall population has dropped significantly and will enter negative territory from 2025,” said the National Health Commission (CNS).
In January, officials announced that the population will see zero or even “negative” growth in the 2021-2025 five-year period.
“Currently, our country’s political system that supports birth rates is not perfect, and there is a gap in population development and people’s expectations,” CNS said in its latest report. Said.
According to the Commission, the fertility rate has fallen below 1.3 children per family in recent years, and the country is expected to enter a phase of rapid aging around 2035, with more than 30% of the population over 60 years old, according to the Commission.
Families are also expected to shrink, which will “weaken” the pension system and childcare.
According to UN projections pointing out that India will surpass China as the most populous country on the planet by 2023, the world population is expected to reach eight billion in November 2022.
source: Noticias
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