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China’s Record-low Birth rate
January 19 , 2022
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- The birth rate in China in 2021 declined to 7.52 births per 1,000 people.
- It is also the lowest data, since Communist China was founded in 1949.
- China has already been grappling with a threatening demographic crisis with rapidly ageing workforce, weakest population growth in decades and slowing economy.
- In 2016, China relaxed the nation’s “one-child policy”.
- In 2021, China extended the policy to allow couples to have three children.
