China Population Report: National Bureau of Statistics of China (China) reported that in the decade ending in 2020, the country’s population increased by 720 million to 1.411 billion.
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China said on Tuesday that the rate of population growth in its country has been close to zero (Zero). The reason behind this is the decrease in the number of couples giving birth to children in the country. China said that in the last decade, the country’s population has increased by only five percent. In this way, the population has increased to more than 1.4 billion. China’s problem is increasing due to dwindling population, as the workforce is decreasing in the country and the number of elderly people in the population is increasing. This will also increase expenditure on the health of the elderly.
The National Bureau of Statistics said that in the decade ending in 2020, the population of the country increased by 720 million to 1.411 billion. The average rate of annual increase in population is 0.53 percent, which has decreased from the decade before it. Please tell that Chinese leaders had imposed birth limits since 1980 to prevent the population from increasing, but now they are worried that the number of working-aged people in the country is decreasing rapidly. Due to this efforts are being made to create a prosperous economy. Even after the relaxation of birth boundaries in China, the couple shies away from giving birth to children due to inflation, small housing and job discrimination with mothers.
Policies are made through census data
Even after the relaxation of China’s ‘One Child Policy’, the birth rate has been declining since 2017. In 2016, the ‘One Child Policy’ was relaxed, the reason behind this was the change in demographics. National Bureau of Statistics officer Ning Jije said that the data showed that China’s population has increased marginally in the last decade. The growth of 5.4 percent in the last 10 years has come with the fear that a rising population and a slow birth rate may create a demographic crisis for the country. China conducts a census every ten years to determine population growth, patterns of movement of people, and other trends. Data received through it plays a major role in government policy planning.
Birth rate significantly reduced in 2020
The 2020 census was completed in December. For this, 7 million volunteers gathered data from house to house. The declining marriage rate in China is also becoming a problem for him. In recent years, there has been a negative sentiment among people about marriage. The reason behind this is issues like rising inflation. China recorded its slowest birth rate from 1949 to 2019, with an increase of 10.48 per cent for every 1,000 people. At the same time, preliminary data released in February revealed that the birth rate has reduced considerably in 2020, although the number of actual births has not yet been announced.
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