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China: The census is seeing rock bottom growth in decades

China's population has been growing at a slow pace for many years , consistent with official data released on Tuesday.

China: The census is seeing rock bottom growth in decades

The average annual rate over the last 10 years was 0.53%, down from 0.57% between 2000 and 2010 - bringing the population to 1.41 billion.

The results put pressure on Beijing to require steps to scale back the population and reduce the amount of couples to possess more children.

The results were announced once during the decades-long census, which was originally published in April.

The census was conducted at the top of 2020, when about 7 million people within the census went door-to-door to gather information from Chinese households.

Due to the massive number of individuals surveyed, it's considered as a comprehensive resource on China's population, which is vital for future planning.

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Isn't China already trying to extend it?

Yes. In 2016, the govt pursued a controversial one-child policy and allowed the couple to possess two children.

But that reform came two years later. Despite the rise , the country's birth rate didn't decline.

Ms USU, chief economist at The Economist Intelligence Unit, said: "While the policy of getting a second child features a positive effect on the birth rate, it's been short-lived in nature."

There were expectations that China could cancel the contraception policy altogether with the new census results, but that didn't happen.

China's population trend is essentially the political influence of a toddler , introduced in 1979 for slow growth.

Families who violated the principles were fined, lost their jobs, and sometimes forced to possess abortions.

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However, he said it had been "still large enough".

Mr Ning said the low birth rate might be a natural consequence of China's social and economic development.

As countries become more developed, education rates fall thanks to other priorities like education or career.

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Neighboring Japan and South Korea , for instance , have reported a decline in birth rates in recent years, despite various government measures to extend the couple's chances of getting more children.

Last year, South Korea recorded the very best number of births in history, a fresh threat from a rustic that already has one among the very best birth rates within the world.

The shrinking population thanks to the reverse age structure may be a problem, consisting of individuals older than the young.

If this happens, there'll not be enough staff to assist the elderly within the future, and there could also be a growing demand for health and social care.

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