If the Chinese government doesn’t socialize child birth in the next five years it’ll likely reach a phase of no return. The pyramid is clearly inverting and once you get into that situation the amount of children a new cohort would need to have to maintain TFR is a multiple of previous generations, which means it just won’t happen and you’ll be stuck with an inverted population for decades.
The Japanification of East Asia will be complete.
The Japanification of East Asia will be complete.