Category: population

What’s Behind China’s New 3-Child Policy?

June 2, 2021
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Commentary The Chinese Communist Party (CCP) recently announced its decision to allow married couples to have up to three children, a major policy shift from the two-child limit. The new policy comes as China’s birth rate has significantly declined while its aging population continues to increase. Such an absurd decision is unprecedented in the world. What…

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China 2020 Census Shows Population Growth Slipped to Lowest Ever

May 11, 2021
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BEIJING—China’s population growth in the decade to 2020 slumped to the least in official records dating back to the 1950s, fuelling pressure on Beijing to ramp up incentives to couples to have more children and avert an irreversible decline. With growth having slowed ever since a one-child policy was introduced in the late 1970s, the…

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Chinese Regime Seeks to Douse Speculation of Shrinking Population

April 29, 2021
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BEIJING—China’s population grew last year, the statistics bureau said on April 29 in an apparent bid to quash reports that it had fallen, but authorities stopped short of saying from which year numbers had grown. On Tuesday, the Financial Times newspaper said China was set to report that its population fell below 1.4 billion last…

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China Postpones Release of 2020 Population Data, Facing Possible Population Collapse: Experts

February 4, 2021
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The National Bureau of Statistics of the Communist Party of China stated at a press conference on Jan. 18 that it would be postponing the release of China’s birth data for 2020. But according to data released by some local governments, the mainland’s population appears to be declining, and at an alarming rate in some areas…

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UK Population May Have Seen Largest Fall Since World War II, Study Suggests

January 15, 2021
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The total population of Britain could have fallen by more than 1.3 million during the CCP virus pandemic, mostly as a result of an exodus of non-UK born people, new research suggests. This would be the largest fall in the UK resident population since World War II, according to researchers from the Economic Statistics Centre…

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