{"id":76005,"date":"2026-01-19T21:12:38","date_gmt":"2026-01-19T12:12:38","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2026\/jan\/19\/china-population-falls-again-birthrate-record-low"},"modified":"2026-01-19T21:12:38","modified_gmt":"2026-01-19T12:12:38","slug":"chinas-population-falls-again-as-birthrate-drops-17-to-record-low","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/?p=76005","title":{"rendered":"China\u2019s population falls again as birthrate drops 17% to record low"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Fourth year of decline deepens concerns over ageing, shrinking workforce and long-term economic impact<\/p>\n<p>China\u2019s population fell for a fourth consecutive year in 2025 as the birthrate plunged to another record low despite the introduction of polices aimed at encouraging people to have children.<\/p>\n<p>Registered births dropped to 7.92 million in 2025 \u2013 or 5.63 for every 1,000 members of the population \u2013 down 17% from 9.54 million in 2024, and the lowest since records began in 1949.<\/p>\n<p> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2026\/jan\/19\/china-population-falls-again-birthrate-record-low\">Continue reading&#8230;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Fourth year of decline deepens concerns over ageing, shrinking workforce and long-term economic impactChina\u2019s population fell for a fourth consecutive year in 2025 as the birthrate plunged to another record low despite the introduction of polices aimed&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3584,"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":[41,6,50,556,706,42],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-76005","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-asia-pacific","category-business","category-china","category-chinese-economy","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\/76005","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\/3584"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=76005"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/76005\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":76006,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/76005\/revisions\/76006"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=76005"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=76005"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=76005"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}