China allegedly tries to maintain it hush on rising demographic worries

The Metropolis Knowledge publish revealed a plummeting start fee in China, with roughly solely 7.88 million infants born in 2023. Couple that with the roughly 11 million deaths recorded final yr, it tallies to a inhabitants decline of three.12 million. And that signifies a rising demographic downside, which is not a great sign of confidence to the social and financial outlook for China.

That publish has since been deleted and “official figures” will solely be confirmed no sooner than 17 January. We’ll see if that syncs with what the leaked numbers are saying.

As a lot as China is seeking to maintain it hush on the matter, their very own academia had additionally forecasted such a state of affairs already in August final yr as seen here. So, this isn’t to say that the quantity is a serious shock.

Nonetheless, it’s a massive blow to morale and Xi Jinping’s depicted picture in main China lately. It’s a additional indictment that the working class continues to want not having children on this present technology. From excessive property costs to worsening high quality of life, I am going to depart you to guess why that’s the case though all of us already know the solutions to that.