but their birth rates all collapsed within decades relative to the past, just as East Asia's did. They're just less far along in the process.
Saudi women have internet, wear makeup, have electricity, plumbing, dishwashers and medicine. You tell me.
Isn't housing the biggest issue why young people are reluctant to get married?, Government would have to acquire all private players consolidate and make it a low profit socially focused enterprise like current high speed railways
7 million births this year is just another exaggerated statistics by a professor that wanted to be famous and anti-China SCMP. There is no way that the total births this year would be 7 million. Most of the early statistics coming out of major cities and counties have shown births decline of 2% to 12% with few exceptions. The estimate is 10% decline this year at most so 8.5 million births this year is the low estimate.
Housing is a drag but resolving housing problem would not necessary resolve the low birthrates problem. Government needs also resolve the extreme feminism movement and tiger moms problem. Many women have unrealistic expectation due to feminism movement and have delayed their marriage until it is too late to find someone suitable. Tiger moms is also a very problematic as many women spent so much money on their children due to peer pressure or unrealistic expectation of their children which ended up draining their financial resources and well being that many women chose to not have a second child.
It's maybe even more complicated. The rise of feminism in China leads to large number of women don't even want to get married and having kids. Youth employment is rising meaning more people will defer having babies (if they wants one) until they find a job. Housing bubble is a fund for many local governments (who is one mainly responsible for concrete measures of increasing birth rate, central government provides the targets and directions only) for decades and if it burst when these local governments does not change the model for funding then they will not have money for provide incentives for the youth.
Yes, but China is already facing this issue while not being a developed country yet.
Lmao, how do you force people to have children? Lool You mean the Chinese governemnt will go around forcing people to have unprotected sex with their woman to have children? Lool That's not feasible. If the government ever tried to force people to have children against their will, the people might evennlead to an uprising against government due to public anger and dissatisfaction. Afterall, people are more educated, open and aware today than they were in the 70s and 90s. The younger génération is less tolérant and more demanding than their parents génération. For example, i believe if the one child policy was introduced today, i think the Chinese people reaction would have been different compared to their parents generation.
China is either right on the border, or will pass, the World Bank defined nominal GDP per capita for high income country.