China’s first population decline in 60 years sounds demographic alarm

1/17/23
 
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from The Washington Post,
1/17/23:

China’s population shrank last year for the first time since a devastating famine in the Mao era, in a clear sign that the country is facing a looming demographic crisis worsened by decades of coercive policy that limited most families to a single child.

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