Population decline in China raises concerns of economic implications

Newly released demographic figures show that the populations of more than a third of China’s provinces have shrunk in 2021. The figures released in November in China Statistical Yearbook 2022 have renewed discussion of long-term population decline in the world’s second largest economy amid concerns that the demographic change could have severe economic implications.

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