As you are probably already aware, China keeps much of its internal data secret and/or lies about conditions in the country. One of these areas seems to be its birth rates and overall size of its population. I've posted before that even using official Chinese statistics, the country's death rate has exceeded its birth rate for the last couple of years, but I've come across various articles and videos on this topic that have suggested the population has been shrinking for longer than that, perhaps far longer.
In the video below, the presenter uses various statistics of items that are probably less likely to be faked by the Chinese government to try and come up with an estimate of the actual current population of China and concludes that the real Chinese population may be less than 1 billion--perhaps as low as 800 million.
Well, all those people didn't commit suicide - that would be destruction of government property.
ReplyDeleteIt is likely that the hundreds of millions of rural workers that have poured into the industrial cities and coastal regions over the last few decades to find work, but aren't allowed to own property outside of their home provinces, probably aren't having families.
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