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World Business Report: First broadcast 17/01/2023 22:32 GMT : China's birth rate hits 60-year low

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China's birth rate hits 60-year low

First broadcast 17/01/2023 22:32 GMT 

First broadcast 17/01/2023 22:32 GMT : China's birth rate hits 60-year low

BBC World Service - World Business Report, China's birth rate hits 60-year low

China's population has fallen for the first time in 60 years

China had 850,000 fewer people at the end of 2022 compared with the previous year.

China's National Bureau of Statistics says the country's population has fallen for the first time in 60 years as it enters what officials describe as an era of negative population growth. (Picture: A nurse helps a new born bathe in Huaian Maternal and Child Health Hospital, East China's Jiangsu province. Credit: Getty Images.)

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