Thursday, July 31, 2025
China's Decreasing Population
I wasn't aware of this--China's population has been slightly decreasing since 2021, according to the US FRED database via the World Bank, when it peaked at 1.41236 billion. Since then its annual decrease has been -0.01%, -0.10% and -0.12% for 2022, 2023 and 2024 respectively. So the decrease is accelerating. (Sure, it's only three years of data.) Maybe it's a result of the COVID pandemic(?). I don't have a chance to look into any news stories right now, but just noticed this.
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The one child policy is catching up to them. The whole eastern Asia region has had extremely low birthrates and will face a population collapse.
So too few (quote-unquote) babies being born in the one-child policy era means there are now not enough (quote-unquote) parents to have children of their own? Is that what you mean?
I wonder if the Chinese view a peaking population as a problem/challenge. Population growth seems like a trap--either it continues so there are enough workers to pay for the retirees, or else it collapses and retirees can't be paid what they need.... What is the best solution, do you think -- a stable population?
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