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Business Matters: China's falling population: A dent to the economy?

China's falling population: A dent to the economy?

18/01/2023 GMT

BBC World Service - Business Matters, China's falling population: A dent to the economy?

China enters a historic era of negative population growth

China's population has fallen for the first time since 1961.

On today's programme, China sees a historic fall in birth rate with consequences for its economy and the world.

The Bank of Japan will decide on its latest course of monetary policy, we discuss what it might mean.

Rahul Tandon is joined throughout the programme by Betsey Stevenson, professor of public policy and economics at the University of Michigan and Isin Elicin, a freelance journalist based in Istanbul in Turkey. (Picture: A nurse takes care of a newborn baby in a maternity hospital in Fuyang in central China's Anhui province. Credit; Getty Images)

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