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China said Friday that its population fell for the third straight year in 2024, falling by almost 1.4 million to 1.408 billion. ... A growing number of countries are confronting the dual ...
The National Bureau of Statistics said the total number of people in China dropped by 1.39 million to 1.408 billion in 2024, compared with 1.409 billion in 2023. ... -China's population fell for a ...
The number of foreign residents rose 10% to 1.9 million people, partly because of an extension of a working visa program, the country's Yonhap news agency reported, citing the government statistics agency. That was enough to boost the total population ever so slightly -- by 0.2% to 51.8 million people. Of those, 9.5 million are 65 or older.
China's population pyramid, 2023 to 2100, as projected by the United Nations in 2022. China's population is aging faster than almost all other countries in modern history. [1] [2] In 2050, the proportion of Chinese over retirement age will become 39 percent of the total population according to projections.
Officials from the National Bureau of Statistics said mainland China had 1.41175 billion people at the end of 2022, compared with 1.41260 billion a year earlier, a decrease of 850,000.
Even though China has already opened two-child policy since 2016, data shows that the second-child policy cannot stop the problem of an aging population. China needs to find an appropriate birth policy to optimize the demographic dividend, which refers to the proportion of labor-age population. [27]
China's population, which is about 1.4 billion, declined for the second year in a row in 2023, with the nation losing over 2 million people as the death rate surpassed the birth rate.
Population pyramid of China (2018) Population ageing is an increasing median age in a population because of declining fertility rates and rising life expectancy. Most countries have rising life expectancy and an ageing population, trends that emerged first in developed countries but are now seen in virtually all developing countries. In most ...