{"id":31993,"date":"2021-05-11T14:53:14","date_gmt":"2021-05-11T05:53:14","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2021\/may\/11\/analysis-chinas-ageing-population-predicament-global-implications-east-asia"},"modified":"2021-05-11T14:53:14","modified_gmt":"2021-05-11T05:53:14","slug":"why-china-and-east-asias-ageing-population-threatens-global-covid-recovery","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/?p=31993","title":{"rendered":"Why China and east Asia\u2019s ageing population threatens global Covid recovery"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Analysis: Beijing\u2019s census data confirms trend reflected across a region that is looked to as engine of post-pandemic growth<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2021\/may\/11\/chinas-population-growing-at-slowest-rate-generations-one-child\">Full report: China\u2019s population growing at slowest rate in generations<\/a><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>For many years China watchers have been concerned that its ageing population will slow economic growth, causing social as well as political problems. So today\u2019s census data may be an alarm bell for leaders in Beijing.<\/p>\n<p>But it is not just China that is witnessing this trajectory. Most countries in east Asia, even without fertility control policies such as China\u2019s <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2019\/mar\/02\/china-population-control-two-child-policy\">one-child<\/a> or two-child policies, share the same predicament: how to continue economic growth while encouraging people to have more children?<\/p>\n<p> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2021\/may\/11\/analysis-chinas-ageing-population-predicament-global-implications-east-asia\">Continue reading&#8230;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Analysis: Beijing\u2019s census data confirms trend reflected across a region that is looked to as engine of post-pandemic growthFull report: China\u2019s population growing at slowest rate in generationsFor many years China watchers have been concerned that its&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2096,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"sns_share_botton_hide":"","vkExUnit_sns_title":"","_vk_print_noindex":"","sitemap_hide":"","_veu_custom_css":"","veu_display_promotion_alert":"","vkexunit_cta_each_option":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[41,50,88,706,222,42],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-31993","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-asia-pacific","category-china","category-japan","category-population","category-south-korea","category-world-news"],"veu_head_title_object":{"title":"","add_site_title":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/31993","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2096"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=31993"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/31993\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":31994,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/31993\/revisions\/31994"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=31993"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=31993"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=31993"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}