China’s population will decrease in 2023 for the second year in a row

According to the international group Tasnim News Agency, China’s National Bureau of Statistics announced that due to the unprecedented decrease in the birth rate and the wave of deaths caused by Covid-19, the country’s population in 2023 for the second year It decreased consecutively. 2023, with a decrease of 0.15%, equivalent to 2 million and 80 thousand people, reached one billion and 409 million people. This decrease in population is more than the decrease of 850 thousand people in this country in 2022. According to this report, China’s population is decreasing for the first time since 1961. It was during the great famine during Mao Zedong’s presidency.

In addition, the number of births in 2023 decreased by 7.5 percent to 9 million and 20 thousand children, which is an unprecedented decrease, equivalent to 6 39 births per 1000 people, while this figure in 2022 was 77.6 births per 1000 people.

The birth rate in China has been decreasing for decades as a result of the implementation of the one-child policy between 1980 and 2015 and the rapid urbanization of people during this period. Is. And while economic prosperity is visible in Japan and South Korea, a large number of Chinese people have left rural and suburban areas for cities, where the cost of raising a child is much more expensive.

Birth rate in Japan in 2022, 3.6 per 1000 people and in South Korea 4.9 per 1000 people.

This is in Meanwhile, UN statistics show that India passed China last year to become the most populous country in the world.

The population of people over 60 years old in China will reach about 297 million people in 2023, which is more than 21% of the total population of this country, while this figure In 2022, it will be about 280 million people.

Organization experts The United Nations believes that China’s population will decrease by 109 million people by 2050, which is more than three times the projected population decrease in 2019.

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