{"id":53683,"date":"2023-03-22T14:16:14","date_gmt":"2023-03-22T05:16:14","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2023\/mar\/22\/beijings-population-falls-for-first-time-since-2003-as-china-battles-low-birthrate"},"modified":"2023-03-22T14:16:14","modified_gmt":"2023-03-22T05:16:14","slug":"beijings-population-falls-for-first-time-since-2003-as-china-battles-low-birthrate","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/?p=53683","title":{"rendered":"Beijing\u2019s population falls for first time since 2003 as China battles low birthrate"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Chinese capital saw more deaths than births in 2022 as high cost of living and education as well as legacy of one-child policy take their toll<\/p>\n<p>Beijing\u2019s population has declined for the first time in almost two decades, new population figures have revealed.<\/p>\n<p>In 2022 there were more deaths than births in the Chinese capital, home to more than 21 million people, resulting in a natural population growth of minus 0.05 per 1,000 people. It is the first time the population has gone backwards since 2003.<\/p>\n<p> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2023\/mar\/22\/beijings-population-falls-for-first-time-since-2003-as-china-battles-low-birthrate\">Continue reading&#8230;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Chinese capital saw more deaths than births in 2022 as high cost of living and education as well as legacy of one-child policy take their tollBeijing\u2019s population has declined for the first time in almost two decades, new population figures have reveal&#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-53683","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\/53683","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=53683"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/53683\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":53684,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/53683\/revisions\/53684"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=53683"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=53683"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=53683"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}