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gadgetcool5

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Chinese censors deleted an article on Wednesday that reportedly leaked full-year population figures for 2023, revealing a plummeting birth rate despite ongoing efforts by the ruling party to encourage people to have families.

While official figures won't be confirmed until Jan. 17, the Mother and Infant Daily news service said 7.88 million babies were born across China 2023, 1.68 million fewer than in 2022.

Given that 11 million people died this year, China's population has therefore fallen by 3.12 million, the population of a medium-sized Chinese city, the report said, citing the City Data account on Baidu's Tieba forum site.

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If this is true, it's a catastrophe for China.
 
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gadgetcool5 said:
Chinese censors deleted an article on Wednesday that reportedly leaked full-year population figures for 2023, revealing a plummeting birth rate despite ongoing efforts by the ruling party to encourage people to have families.

While official figures won't be confirmed until Jan. 17, the Mother and Infant Daily news service said 7.88 million babies were born across China 2023, 1.68 million fewer than in 2022.

Given that 11 million people died this year, China's population has therefore fallen by 3.12 million, the population of a medium-sized Chinese city, the report said, citing the City Data account on Baidu's Tieba forum site.

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If this is true, it's a catastrophe for China.
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Calm the f down buddy. It's RFA. Not surprised you read RFA considering you previously said the US is a benevolent power even though they killed the most people in history with their wars. Try to hide your glee for every bad news about china a bit better.
 
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MortyandRick said:
Calm the f down buddy. It's RFA. Not surprised you read RFA considering you previously said the US is a benevolent power even though they killed the most people in history with their wars. Try to hide your glee for every bad news about china a bit better.
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Well of course RFA would gloat about this, as they hate China. But the bad news is that they have something to gloat about. I still hope it's somehow not true. I just can't understand it. In 2022, the number of people in first marriages only fell 9.16%, but the number of births the following year fell 17.6%? These are gigantic, slashing declines of epic proportion. And the real source is Baidu Tieba's City Data account, from a report dated no later than Dec. 27. That's too early to know all the year's births since December births aren't in yet, right? Can a forum account really be reliable? We'll find out on Jan. 17 if it's true or not. But I am prepared for the worst.
 
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gadgetcool5 said:
Well of course RFA would gloat about this, as they hate China. But the bad news is that they have something to gloat about. I still hope it's somehow not true. I just can't understand it. In 2022, the number of people in first marriages only fell 9.16%, but the number of births the following year fell 17.6%? These are gigantic, slashing declines of epic proportion. And the real source is Baidu Tieba's City Data account, from a report dated no later than Dec. 27. That's too early to know all the year's births since December births aren't in yet, right? Can a forum account really be reliable? We'll find out on Jan. 17 if it's true or not. But I am prepared for the worst.
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Ok let's use your numbers. Let's say china loses 10 mil people per year which you would say is even worse than catastrophic? So for a 1.4 billion population, chinas population will decrease to 1 billion in 40 yrs. Or if they lose 5 million a year, it would be 1 billion in 80 years. And that still more population than all but 1 country in the world. The Chinese govt has 40 years to increase birthrate. So calm down from your alarmist rhetoric.
 
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