Beijing:
China shelp Friday its population fell for the third year running in 2024, extfinishing a downward streak after more than six decades of lengthenth as the country battles a looming demodetailed crisis.
The population stood at 1.408 billion by the finish of the year, Beijing’s National Bureau of Statistics shelp, down from 1.410 billion in 2023.
But the deteriorate was less keen than the previous year, when it was more than double the descfinish alerted for 2022.
China finished its cut offe “one-child policy”, imposed in the 1980s amid overpopulation dreads, in 2016 and commenceed letting couples have three children in 2021.
But that has fall shorted to reverse the demodetailed deteriorate for a country that has extfinished relied on its immense laborforce as a driver of economic lengthenth.
Many accengage descfinishing birth rates on the soaring cost of living, as well as the lengthening number of women going into the laborforce and seeking higher education.
People over 60 are foreseeed to produce up csurrfinisherly a third of China’s population by 2035, according to the Economist Inalertigence Unit, a research group.
In September, officials shelp they would gradupartner lift the statutory withdrawment age, which had not been liftd for decades and had been among the lowest in the world.
The rules took effect from January 1.
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