China’s inhabitants has crept previous 1.Four billion final yr for the primary time, even because the birthrate continues to fall.
The Nationwide Bureau of Statistics says the inhabitants on the Chinese language mainland reached greater than 1.4 billion on the finish of 2019, with one other total acquire of 4.67 million individuals. That marked the third consecutive yr when total variety of births dropped.
China deserted its long-standing one-child coverage in 2016 in hopes of reversing what some have known as a coming demographic tsunami through which China will develop previous earlier than reaching its improvement targets.
However the coverage permitting city {couples} to have a second little one has proven little success amid a dearth of incentives and rising prices of dwelling.
