China’s Population Drops For 2nd Year As Country Scrambles To Boost Birth Rates
China ended its strict “one-child policy”, imposed in the 1980s amid overpopulation fears, in 2016 Beijing: China’s population decline accelerated in 2023, official data showed Wednesday, extending a downward streak after more than six decades of growth as the country battles a looming demographic crisis. Once the world’s most populous country, China was overtaken by … Read more
