China’s population is now inexorably shrinking, bringing forward the day the planet’s population turns down

Tue, 31 Jan 2023 19:44:14 +1100

Andrew Pam <xanni [at] glasswings.com.au>

Andrew Pam
<https://theconversation.com/chinas-population-is-now-inexorably-shrinking-bringing-forward-the-day-the-planets-population-turns-down-198061>

"China’s National Bureau of Statistics has confirmed what researchers such as
myself have long suspected – that 2022 was the year China’s population turned
down, the first time that has happened since the great famine brought on by
Chinese leader Mao Zedong in 1959-1961.

Unlike the famine, whose effects were temporary, and followed by steady
population growth, this downturn will be long-lasting, even if it is followed
by a temporary rebound in births, bringing forward the day the world’s
population peaks and starts to shrink."

Cheers,
       *** Xanni ***
--
mailto:xanni@xanadu.net               Andrew Pam
http://xanadu.com.au/                 Chief Scientist, Xanadu
https://glasswings.com.au/            Partner, Glass Wings
https://sericyb.com.au/               Manager, Serious Cybernetics

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