China had 1.41 billion people at the end of last year, 850,000 less than the end of 2021, according to data released by the National Statistics Bureau on Tuesday. China’s population fell last time for the first time in six decades, a major turn that’s anticipated to mark the launch of a long period of decline in its citizen figures with profound counter accusations for its frugality and the world. The country’s National Bureau of Statistics reported a drop of roughly 850,000 people for a population of 1.41175 billion in 2022, marking the first decline since 1961, the last time of China’s Great shortage.
China’s landmass population, banning nonnatives, fell by 850000 people in 2022 to 1.41 billion, the statistics office said. The country reported 9.56 million births and 10.41 million deaths for 2022. The share of the population periods 16 to 59 ticked lower to 62, down from 62.5 a time before. ” The compression of the total population reflects the impact of the epidemic and the associated profitable downturn on fertility demand,” Yue Su, top economist, Economist Intelligence Unit, said in a note. She said China could see a short- term return to population growth after the impact of the epidemic subsides.
The last time China is believed to have recorded a population decline was during the Great Leap Forward at the end of the 1950s, Mao Zedong’s disastrous drive for collaborative husbandry and industrialisation that produced a massive shortage killing knockouts of millions of people. The office said Chinese of working- age between 16 and 59 totalled 875.56 million, counting for 62.0 per cent of the public population, while those progressed 65 and aged totalled 209.78 million, counting for14.9 per cent of the aggregate.