Mass immigration best solution for a graying China
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The economic way to reverse demograhic decline
This is the first installment of a two-part essay.
The economic way to reverse demographic decline
This is the first installment of a two-part essay.
China’s demographics aren’t a short-term problem
In discussions about China’s economy, the issue of demographics comes up quite a lot. In 2022, China’s population began to decrease (and coincidentally, India’s population surpassed China’s). The country’s fertility rate, which had already fallen below replacement levels decades earlier, fell again recently, to just 1.09 — one of the lowest rates in the world, and even lower than Japan.
China’s demographic doom loop
China has announced that in 2023 its population declined from 1.4118 to 1.4097 billion people. Forecasting by the UN suggests China’s population will dip to 1.313 billion by 2050 and then down to about 800 million by 2100. This is a significant change and will have ramifications well beyond its borders.