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.