Official figures indicated that the country's birth rate dipped below 1% in 2020, signifying the lowest rate of childbirth in 43 years.
According to the published recently China Statistical Yearbook 2020 issued by the National Bureau of Statistics (NBS), the birth rate in 2020 was 8.52 per thousand people. According to the report, the population's natural growth rate was 1.45 per thousand, which was likewise a 43-year low. The birth rate is the number of births divided by the total population, whereas the growth rate is the number of births minus the number of deaths.
According to NBS data issued last year, China's birth rate was 10.48 per 1,000 in 2019. The latest population data from the National Bureau of Statistics (NBS) reveals the scope of China's demographic aspects, which include fewer births and an older population. The country's birth rate has been declining for years, pushing the government to modify the country's one-child policy, which had been in effect since the late 1970s.
