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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.
According to projections based on the 1982 census, if the one-child policy were maintained to the year 2000, 25% of China's population would be age 65 or older by 2040. In 2050, the number of people over 60 is expected to increase to 430 million. [26]
The population is divided into three groups: Ages 0 to 14 years: children. Ages 15 to 64 years: working population or adults. Over the age of 65: elderly, senior citizens. The age structure of a country has a strong impact on society and the economy. If the proportion of 0–14-year-olds is very high, there may be a so-called youth bulge. If ...
With growth having ebbed ever since a one-child policy was introduced in the late 1970s, the 2020 results of the country's once-a-decade census on Tuesday showed the population of mainland China ...
China’s working population, classified as those between the ages of 16 and 59, declined by 10.75 million last year, adding to an ongoing contraction. The population of those over 60, meanwhile ...
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The period from 1850 to 1873 saw, as a result of the Taiping Rebellion, drought, and famine, the population of China drop by over 30 million people. [30] China's Qing Dynasty bureaucracy, which devoted extensive attention to minimizing famines, is credited with averting a series of famines following El Niño-Southern Oscillation -linked ...
[12] [13] In 2016, China set a target of increasing its population to about 1.42 billion by 2020, from 1.34 billion in 2010. [14] After the relaxation of the one-child policy, 17.9 million babies were born in 2016, an increase of 1.3 million over the previous year, but only half of what was expected. [15]