"China’s population falls again as births drop to lowest rate since 1949 communist revolution," reports the Associated Press. Population figures earlier this week show that the population declined by 3 million people last year, and "the birth rate in 2025 — 5.63 per 1,000 people — is the lowest on record since 1949, the year that Mao Zedong’s Communists overthrew the Nationalists and began running China. Figures before that, under the previous Nationalist government, were not available." In other words, birth rates are the lowest ever recorded. The article adds:
Like many other countries in Asia, China has faced a declining fertility rate, or the average number of babies a woman is expected to have in her lifetime. While the government does not regularly publish a fertility rate, last saying it was 1.3 in 2020, experts have estimated it is now around 1. Both figures are far below the 2.1 rate that would maintain the size of China’s population.
The actual population figures may actually be much worse than officially reported, however, as the video below explains:
VIDEO: "China’s Real Population: A Question No One Is Allowed to Answer"
Lei's Real Talk (14 min.)
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