China fails to halt population decline for third straight year

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(TibetanReview.net, Jan19’25) – In what is seen as bad news for the country’s economy in the long run, China said Jan 17 that its population fell last year for the third straight year and now stands at 1.408 billion. China pursued a one-child policy with draconian measures for nearly four decades since 1979 in order to be able to feed itself and to alleviate social, economic, and environmental pressures. Its efforts to reverse the spectacular success of this policy since 2015 has been one of continuous failure.

The National Bureau of Statistics said the total number of people dropped by 1.39 million by the end of 2024, compared to a fall of 2.08 million in 2023 and 850,000 in 2022, ...

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