China’s population decreasing rapidly, did corona epidemic have an effect?

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Chinas population

Beijing: China’s declining population remains a matter of concern. Recently, Chinese officials were quoted as saying that the population crisis in China is worse than the official figures provided. According to data released by statistics officials, the population of 10 provincial-level regions of China has fallen further in the last one year. In this case, the news agency ANI has presented some facts through a report.

In fact, although the population of China has been declining over the last few years, recently the difference between birth rate and the death rate is disappearing. According to the National Bureau of Statistics, China has a birth rate of 0.752 percent and a death rate of 0.718 percent. As a result, the natural growth rate is 0.034 percent. The natural growth rate in 2020 was 0.145 percent.

According to the latest data of the National Bureau of Statistics of China, the population of China was 1.2 million 212 in 2021, which was one billion 41 million and in the year 2021, the population of China increased by only 4 lakh 80 thousand. Which shook the Communist Party of China.

The figures given by the Chinese government are frightening and in the report, Corona has also been cited as a major reason behind the record decrease in population growth. It has been said in the statement that due to Corona, there has been a reluctance among the people to have children.

Chinas population

On the other hand, the decline in China’s economy in the last one year has increased it even more. According to Chinese government statistics, China’s total fertility rate (per woman) in the late 1980s was 2.6 and China had a death rate of 2.1. But since 1994, the birth rate has come down to between 1.6 and 1.7. At the same time, in the year 2020, the birth rate in China decreased to 1.3, then in the year 2021, the birth rate has come down to 1.15. Whereas in America and Australia the birth rate is 1.6 and in Japan also the birth rate is 1.3.

Meanwhile, last year China issued a new population and family planning law that allows Chinese couples to have up to three children, apparently responding to couples’ reluctance to have additional children due to rising costs. The decision to allow a third child was implemented in 2020 after a once-a-decade census showed China’s population grew at the slowest rate in history, reaching 1.412 billion people.

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