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CHINA’S BIRTH RATE FALLS TO LOWEST ON RECORD SINCE 1949
Hindustan Times Mumbai
|January 20, 2026
China's birth rate plunged last year to its lowest level on record, official data showed on Monday, as its population shrank for a fourth straight year despite efforts to curb the decline.
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It is now threatened with a demographic crisis after its birth rate halved over the past decade, despite the end of the restrictive “one-child” policy. There were just 7.92 million births recorded last year, Chinese officials said on Monday, a rate of 5.63 births pe
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