{"id":16107,"date":"2022-07-25T08:22:03","date_gmt":"2022-07-25T08:22:03","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/undergroundnews.co.uk\/?p=16107"},"modified":"2022-07-25T08:22:05","modified_gmt":"2022-07-25T08:22:05","slug":"chinas-population-expected-to-start-to-shrink-before-2025","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/undergroundnews.co.uk\/?p=16107&lang=en","title":{"rendered":"China&#8217;s population expected to start to shrink before 2025"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><strong>Mishaal Arshad C.M Underground News<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\"><li><strong>China&#8217;s population is expected to start to shrink ahead of 2025, says&nbsp;Global Times.<\/strong><\/li><li><strong>The number of new births in 2021 was the lowest in decades.<\/strong><\/li><li><strong>Only China&#8217;s southern Guangdong province has had more than 1 million new births.<\/strong><\/li><\/ul>\n\n\n\n<hr class=\"wp-block-separator has-alpha-channel-opacity is-cnvs-separator-id-1658737157555\"\/>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">China&#8217;s population has slowed significantly and is expected to start to shrink ahead of 2025, the state backed Global Times reported, citing a senior health official.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Birth data released late on Sunday showed that the number of new births in 2021 was the lowest in decades in several provinces.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">The number of births in central Hunan province fell below 500,000 for the first time in nearly 60 years, the Global Times said. Only&nbsp;China&#8217;s&nbsp;southern Guangdong province has had more than 1 million new births, it said.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">China is battling to reverse a rapid&nbsp;shrinkage in natural&nbsp;population&nbsp;growth as many young people opt not to have children due to factors including the high cost and work pressure.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">China&#8217;s&nbsp;population&nbsp;is&nbsp;expected&nbsp;to&nbsp;start&nbsp;to&nbsp;shrink&nbsp;in 2021-2025, the Global Times said, citing Yang Wenzhuang, head of&nbsp;population&nbsp;and family affairs at the National Health Commission.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">A change in China\u2019s laws last year to allow women to have three children has not helped, with many women saying the change comes too late and they have insufficient job security and gender equality.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Mishaal Arshad C.M Underground News China&#8217;s population is expected to start to shrink ahead of 2025, says&nbsp;Global Times.&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":16110,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"csco_singular_sidebar":"","csco_page_header_type":"","csco_appearance_grid":"","csco_page_load_nextpost":"","csco_post_video_location":[],"csco_post_video_location_hash":"","csco_post_video_url":"","csco_post_video_bg_start_time":0,"csco_post_video_bg_end_time":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[76,71,34],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-16107","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-important-news","category-latest-news","category-world","cs-entry","cs-video-wrap"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/undergroundnews.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16107","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/undergroundnews.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/undergroundnews.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/undergroundnews.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/undergroundnews.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=16107"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/undergroundnews.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16107\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":16111,"href":"https:\/\/undergroundnews.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16107\/revisions\/16111"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/undergroundnews.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/16110"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/undergroundnews.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=16107"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/undergroundnews.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=16107"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/undergroundnews.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=16107"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}