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China seeks to douse speculation of shrinking population
China’s population grew last year, the statistics bureau said, in an apparent bid to quash reports that it had fallen, but stopped short of saying from which year numbers had grown.
Key points:
- Births in China have continued to fall despite a two-child policy that replaced a decades-old one-child limit
- The population number is sensitive and will not be released until the government have reached a consensus, the Financial Times reported
- An unexpected drop in population would pile pressure on Beijing to quickly come up with measures to encourage people to have more children
On Tuesday, the Financial Times newspaper said China was set to report that its population fell below 1.4 billion last year from 2019, in the first decrease in five…
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