(ORDO NEWS) — China has released demographic data for 2021. It turned out that the birth rate in the country had fallen sharply – below the level of the Great Famine during the Great Leap Forward.
According to scientists, the population of China will fall by half by the end of the 21st century. Even Nigeria can overtake the country.
According to the National Bureau of Statistics of China, the birth rate in the country fell from 12 million to 10.62 million in a year. But the death rate was 10.1 million. Thus, the population growth was small.
The demograp concluded that the decline in China’s population could be 2% annually.
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