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China’s Population Falls Again in 2023
January 21 , 2024
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- China's population fell for a second consecutive year in 2023, as a plunging birth rate and a wave of COVID-19 deaths.
- The total number of people in China was dropped by 2.75 million to 1.409 billion in 2023, a faster decline than in 2022.
- It was the first since 1961 during the Great Famine of the Mao Zedong era.
- The country's birth rate has been plummeting for decades as a result of the one-child policy implemented from 1980 to 2015.
- By long-term, China's population is shrinking by 109 million by 2050.
- It will more than triple the decline of their previous forecast in 2019.
- China's birth rate last year was 6.39 births per 1,000 people, down from a rate of 6.77 births in 2022 and marking the lowest birth rate on record.
- Japan's rate was 6.3 births per 1,000 people in 2022, while South Korea's was 4.9.
- China's 2023 rate of 7.87 deaths per 1,000 people, was up from a rate of 7.37 deaths in 2022.
- This is the highest since 1974 during the Cultural Revolution.
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