{"id":51929,"date":"2023-01-17T11:15:03","date_gmt":"2023-01-17T02:15:03","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2023\/jan\/17\/chinas-population-falls-for-first-time-in-more-than-60-years"},"modified":"2023-01-17T11:15:03","modified_gmt":"2023-01-17T02:15:03","slug":"chinas-population-falls-for-first-time-in-more-than-60-years","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/?p=51929","title":{"rendered":"China\u2019s population falls for first time in more than 60 years"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Shift marks the start of a long period of population decline as China wrestles with demographic time bomb<\/p>\n<p>China has entered an \u201cera of negative population growth\u201d, after figures revealed a historic drop in the number of people for the first time since 1961.<\/p>\n<p>The country had 1.41175 billion people at the end of 2022, compared with 1.41260 billion a year earlier, the National Bureau of Statistics said on Tuesday, a drop of 850,000. It marked the beginning of what is expected to be a <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2022\/nov\/14\/india-faces-deepening-demographic-divide-as-it-prepares-to-overtake-china-as-the-worlds-most-populous-country\">long period of population decline<\/a>, despite major government efforts to reverse the trend.<\/p>\n<p> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2023\/jan\/17\/chinas-population-falls-for-first-time-in-more-than-60-years\">Continue reading&#8230;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Shift marks the start of a long period of population decline as China wrestles with demographic time bombChina has entered an \u201cera of negative population growth\u201d, after figures revealed a historic drop in the number of people for the first time since 1&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1648,"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],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-51929","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-asia-pacific","category-china"],"aioseo_notices":[],"veu_head_title_object":{"title":"","add_site_title":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/51929","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\/1648"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=51929"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/51929\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":51953,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/51929\/revisions\/51953"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=51929"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=51929"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=51929"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}