China has long had a birth rate of under 2.1 children per woman, largely due to the one-child policy. But even as the policy was modified and then lifted in 2015, the birth rate has continued to shrink
China’s population plummeted last year for the first time in six decades, the country’s National Bureau of Statistics has revealed.According to the bureau, the number declined by about 850,000 to more than 1.4 billion at the end of 2022.China’s male population stood at 722.06 million, while the female population was estimated at 689.69 million, and “the sex ratio of the total population was 104.
