China's fertility rate is estimated to have dropped to a record low of 1.09 in 2022, the National Business Daily said on Tuesday, a figure likely to rattle authorities as they try to boost the country's declining number of new births.

China’s fertility rate is estimated to have dropped to a record low of 1.09 in 2022, the National Business Daily said on Tuesday, a figure likely to rattle authorities as they try to boost the country’s declining number of new births.

  • Mothra@mander.xyzEnglish
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    1 year ago

    I still don’t get it. Two decades ago they were forbidding people to have more than one child iirc. Now they’re desperate to have more people? Why the sudden change of heart? Why didn’t they lift their restrictions earlier? What info am I missing?