In China, Birth Rate Falls To Lowest Level In 70 Years

[jpak]

https://www.npr.org/2020/01/17/797230518/in-china-gdp-growth-falls-to-lowest-level-in-nearly-30-years

New birth-rate figures show that China has so far failed to reverse the effects of its longtime one-child policy — a change that policymakers say is necessary to forestall the long-term economic consequences of an aging and shrinking population.

The National Bureau of Statistics of China released the new data on Friday, the same day it announced that the country's GDP growth has fallen to its lowest level in nearly 30 years.

Last year, there were 10.48 births per 1,000 people, the lowest birth rate since 1949, the year the People's Republic of China was founded. The number was down from 10.94 the year before.

The one-child policy was put in place in 1979 by Chinese leader Deng Xiaoping, who feared that the country's exploding population would hold back economic development.

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[OnlinePoker]

1. It doesn't help that due to the one-child policy sex selection and infanticide favored males

As a result, China currently has 54 million more males than females.

[Progressive dog]

2. A step in the right direction.

The world population has doubled in less than fifty years. Since 1960 the carbon footprint per person has increased by 60%.
https://blogs.worldbank.org/opendata/chart-carbon-emissions-60-higher-person-1960

[BigmanPigman]

3. I think I read that the US birth rate is at its

lowest since 1900.