POPULATION CRISIS – Despite the communist regime’s efforts to convince families to grow, the birth rate has plummeted last year in China. It is at its lowest level since 1978.
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Even the Covid-19 epidemic which confined millions of couples to their homes at the start of 2020 did nothing. Couples are indeed cooled by the rising cost of living, housing and especially the education of children. The rate of natural increase of the population thus plunged to 0.34 per 1,000 people last year, against 1.45 in 2000.
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As a result, for the first time since the era of the Great Leap Forward – an economic policy launched by Mao Zedong between 1958 and 1960 – the number people who died (10.1 million) approached the number of people born. The Chinese population therefore increased again last year, but only by 480,000 people.
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