{"id":39177,"date":"2021-11-23T18:37:07","date_gmt":"2021-11-23T09:37:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2021\/nov\/23\/chinese-birthrate-falls-to-lowest-since-1978"},"modified":"2021-11-23T18:37:07","modified_gmt":"2021-11-23T09:37:07","slug":"chinese-birthrate-falls-to-lowest-since-1978","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/?p=39177","title":{"rendered":"Chinese birthrate falls to lowest since 1978"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Official statistics show 8.5 births per 1,000 people in 2020, the first time under 10 in decades<\/p>\n<p>China\u2019s birthrate has plummeted to its lowest level since 1978 as the government struggles to stave off a looming demographic crisis.<\/p>\n<p>Data released by the country\u2019s national bureau of statistics shows there were 8.5 births per 1,000 people in 2020, the first time in decades that the figure has fallen below 10. The statistical yearbook, released at the weekend, said the natural rate of population growth \u2013 taking in births and deaths \u2013 was at a new low of 1.45.<\/p>\n<p> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2021\/nov\/23\/chinese-birthrate-falls-to-lowest-since-1978\">Continue reading&#8230;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Official statistics show 8.5 births per 1,000 people in 2020, the first time under 10 in decadesChina\u2019s birthrate has plummeted to its lowest level since 1978 as the government struggles to stave off a looming demographic crisis.Data released by the co&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1643,"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":[41,50,706,42],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-39177","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-asia-pacific","category-china","category-population","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\/39177","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\/1643"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=39177"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/39177\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":39178,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/39177\/revisions\/39178"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=39177"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=39177"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=39177"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}