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China’s population suffers gender imbalance
China’s “missing girls” make it much harder for the country to keep its population stable, according to Carl Haub, demographer at the Washington-based Population Research Bureau. In recent decades, China has produced only 80 baby girls for every 100 baby boys
Population growth in China is a concern for policy makers because the working-age population peaked in 2012, so the country faces having fewer workers available to support a growing army of the elderly. That peak has come at an earlier stage than in neighboring economies, lending weight to the opinion of some observers that “China will become old before it gets rich”.
Demographers consider that to keep the population from falling, each woman, on average, must produce 2.06 babies, or an average of one daughter each. But women in China would need to produce 2.2 children each to keep population level. That is because the nation’s gender imbalance is among the highest in the world, with 1.17 boys for every girl, a level that demographers have warned could lead to social unrest in years to come.
Indeed, recent data from China’s census suggest it is having even fewer children than suggested by UN statistics, which show a birth rate of 1.6 children per woman over the course of her child-bearing years. But China’s own census puts the rate as of 2010 at 1.08, almost the world’s lowest.
Recently, China announced it was modifying its “one-child policy” to allow urban couples to have two children if only one parent, rather than both, was an only child.
China’s population suffers gender imbalance
China’s “missing girls” make it much harder for the country to keep its population stable, according to Carl Haub, demographer at the Washington-based Population Research Bureau. In recent decades, China has produced only 80 baby girls for every 100 baby boys
Population growth in China is a concern for policy makers because the working-age population peaked in 2012, so the country faces having fewer workers available to support a growing army of the elderly. That peak has come at an earlier stage than in neighboring economies, lending weight to the opinion of some observers that “China will become old before it gets rich”.
Demographers consider that to keep the population from falling, each woman, on average, must produce 2.06 babies, or an average of one daughter each. But women in China would need to produce 2.2 children each to keep population level. That is because the nation’s gender imbalance is among the highest in the world, with 1.17 boys for every girl, a level that demographers have warned could lead to social unrest in years to come.
Indeed, recent data from China’s census suggest it is having even fewer children than suggested by UN statistics, which show a birth rate of 1.6 children per woman over the course of her child-bearing years. But China’s own census puts the rate as of 2010 at 1.08, almost the world’s lowest.
Recently, China announced it was modifying its “one-child policy” to allow urban couples to have two children if only one parent, rather than both, was an only child.
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