{"id":61228,"date":"2024-01-17T14:24:47","date_gmt":"2024-01-17T05:24:47","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2024\/jan\/17\/china-population-decline-accelerates-as-birthrate-hits-record-low"},"modified":"2024-01-17T14:24:47","modified_gmt":"2024-01-17T05:24:47","slug":"china-population-decline-accelerates-as-birthrate-hits-record-low","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/?p=61228","title":{"rendered":"China population decline accelerates as birthrate hits record low"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Population data shows drop of almost three million in 2023<\/p>\n<p>China\u2019s population decline has accelerated, with a second year of record-low birthrates.<\/p>\n<p>The total number of people in China dropped by 2.75 million \u2013 or 0.2% \u2013 to 1.409 billion in 2023, the National Bureau of Statistics said on Tuesday. The drop <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2023\/jan\/17\/chinas-population-falls-for-first-time-in-more-than-60-years\">surpassed that recorded in 2022, of about 850,000<\/a> \u2013 the first time the recorded population had declined since the mass deaths of the Mao-era famines.<\/p>\n<p> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2024\/jan\/17\/china-population-decline-accelerates-as-birthrate-hits-record-low\">Continue reading&#8230;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Population data shows drop of almost three million in 2023China\u2019s population decline has accelerated, with a second year of record-low birthrates.The total number of people in China dropped by 2.75 million \u2013 or 0.2% \u2013 to 1.409 billion in 2023, the Nati&#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":[50,706],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-61228","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","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\/61228","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=61228"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/61228\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":61229,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/61228\/revisions\/61229"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=61228"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=61228"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=61228"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}