{"id":40721,"date":"2022-01-17T15:06:03","date_gmt":"2022-01-17T06:06:03","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2022\/jan\/17\/chinas-birthrate-falls-to-61-year-low-despite-moves-to-stave-off-demographic-crisis"},"modified":"2022-01-18T03:46:12","modified_gmt":"2022-01-17T18:46:12","slug":"chinas-birthrate-falls-to-61-year-low-despite-moves-to-stave-off-demographic-crisis","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/?p=40721","title":{"rendered":"China\u2019s population growth rate falls to 61-year low"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Beijing has announced major reforms to address the decline, including raising the retirement age and implementing a three-child policy<\/p>\n<p>China\u2019s population growth rate has fallen to its lowest level in six decades, barely outnumbering deaths in 2021 despite major government efforts to increase population growth and stave off a demographic crisis.<\/p>\n<p>Across China, 10.62 million babies were born in 2021, a rate of 7.52 per thousand people, the national bureau of statistics said on Monday. In the same period 10.14 million deaths were recorded, a mortality rate of 7.18 per thousand, producing a population growth rate of just 0.34 per thousand head of population.<\/p>\n<p> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2022\/jan\/17\/chinas-birthrate-falls-to-61-year-low-despite-moves-to-stave-off-demographic-crisis\">Continue reading&#8230;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Beijing has announced major reforms to address the decline, including raising the retirement age and implementing a three-child policyChina\u2019s population growth rate has fallen to its lowest level in six decades, barely outnumbering deaths in 2021 despi&#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],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-40721","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-asia-pacific","category-china","category-population"],"veu_head_title_object":{"title":"","add_site_title":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/40721","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=40721"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/40721\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":40749,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/40721\/revisions\/40749"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=40721"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=40721"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=40721"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}