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Bloomberg (31 May 2021)

Daniel Ten Kate

As much as China worries about the U.S. trying to hinder its rise as an economic power, a potentially bigger threat lies within its own borders: a shrinking birth rate. 

A census released this month showed the number of births in China last year fell to the lowest in six decades even after President Xi Jinping ended the one-child policy in 2015 and allowed each couple to have two. Based on those numbers, Bloomberg Economics projected China’s population would peak in 2025 — much earlier than officials had expected.

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