In 2021, several provinces in China had the fewest babies born in decades.
In China, the population will begin to decline in 2025. This was said by the head of the Department of Population and Family Affairs of the National Health Commission, Yang Wenzhuang, wrote the Global Times.
It found that in 2021, some provinces in China had the fewest babies born in recent decades.
The number of births in the central province of Hunan fell below 500,000 for the first time in nearly 60 years. Henan province had fewer than 800,000 births for the first time since 1978, and Jiangxi province in eastern China saw births drop below 400,000 for the first time since the 1950s.
Recall that the birth rate in China has fallen to its lowest level in 70 years.
As previously reported, the UN announced that the world’s population will reach eight billion people on November 15, 2022.
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