With greater than 1.four billion individuals, China accounts for a couple of sixth of the world’s population. AFP

Beijing: China has introduced its first total population decline in recent years amid an growing old society and plunging birthrate.

The National Bureau of Statistics reported the nation had 850,000 fewer individuals on the finish of 2022 than over the earlier yr. It counts solely the population of mainland China whereas excluding Hong Kong, Macao and self-governing Taiwan in addition to international residents.

That left a complete of 1.411.75 billion, with 9.56 million births in opposition to 10.41 million deaths, the bureau mentioned at a briefing on Tuesday.

Men additionally continued to outnumber ladies by 722.06 million to 689.69 million, the bureau mentioned, a results of the now-abandoned one-child coverage and a standard choice for male offspring to hold on the household identify.

China has lengthy been the world’s most populous nation, however is predicted to quickly be overtaken by India.

The final time China is believed to have recorded a population decline was throughout the Great Leap Forward on the finish of the 1950s, Mao Zedon’g disastrous drive for collective farming and industrialisation that produced a large famine killing tens of hundreds of thousands of individuals.

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