The Chinese authorities have summed up the first results of demographic changes in the country in 2022.According to the National
In addition to population decline, in 2022The birth rate in China reached 6.77 children per 1,000 people. This is a record low level since the start of regular observations. A year earlier, 7.52 children per thousand people were born in the country. For comparison, according to Rosstat, for the first 11 months of 2022, the birth rate in Russia averaged 9.7 across the country.
Wang Feng, expert on demographic change inChina from the University of California at Irvine, in an interview with The Financial Times noted that the current population decline is the first since the early 1960s. The researcher believes that this is the beginning of a long trend associated with the consequences of the "one family - one child" policy that the Chinese authorities pursued from 1979 to 2015.
In addition, there are otherchanges associated with the demographic transition: population aging and increasing urbanization. At the end of 2022, the share of the urban population increased to 65.22%, while the number of able-bodied citizens decreased from 62.5% to 62%.
Previously, Hi-Tech told that, according to the assessmentUN, the total world population in 2022 exceeded 8 billion people, while the growth rate is gradually declining. Demographers believe that by 2080 the total number of people on the planet will stabilize at about 10.8 billion people.
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