China’s population could halve within the next 45 years, new study warns

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• Researchers say previous estimates may have severely underestimated the pace of demographic decline
  
• Census data says the birth rate was 1.3 children for each woman last year – well below the level needed to stop the population from falling
  

China’s population decline may be much faster than expected, with the number of people in the country halving within the next 45 years, a new study has warned.

The projection was based on the official birth rate of 1.3 children per woman last year – well below the figure of 2 needed to keep the number stable – and forecast a much more dramatic decline  than previous estimates.

China’s current population is over 1.4 billion  and in 2019 the United Nations projected that China would still have around 1.3 billion people by 2065.

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