{"id":1223945,"date":"2022-01-19T08:52:35","date_gmt":"2022-01-19T13:52:35","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=1223945"},"modified":"2022-01-19T08:52:45","modified_gmt":"2022-01-19T13:52:45","slug":"china-lost-5-million-women-of-childbearing-age-in-2021","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/china-lost-5-million-women-of-childbearing-age-in-2021\/","title":{"rendered":"China Lost 5 Million Women of Childbearing Age in 2021"},"content":{"rendered":"<aside class=\"mashsb-container mashsb-main mashsb-stretched\"><div class=\"mashsb-box\"><div class=\"mashsb-count mash-medium\" style=\"&quot;\"><div class=\"counts mashsbcount\">20<\/div><span class=\"mashsb-sharetext\">SHARES<\/span><\/div><div class=\"mashsb-buttons\"><a class=\"mashicon-facebook mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/sharer.php?u=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.conservativenewsdaily.net%2Fbreaking-news%2Fchina-lost-5-million-women-of-childbearing-age-in-2021%2F\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Facebook<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-twitter mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/intent\/tweet?text=&amp;url=https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=1223945&amp;via=ConservNewsDly\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Twitter<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-subscribe mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"#\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Subscribe<\/span><\/a><div class=\"onoffswitch2 mash-medium mashsb-noshadow\" style=\"display:none\"><\/div><\/div>\n            <\/div>\n                <div style=\"clear:both\"><\/div><\/aside>\n            <!-- Share buttons by mashshare.net - Version: 4.0.47--><p class=\"subheading\">The number of women of childbearing age \u2014 between 15 and 49 years old \u2014 in China <a href=\"https:\/\/www.globaltimes.cn\/page\/202201\/1246146.shtml\">decreased<\/a> in 2021 by 5 million, China\u2019s National Bureau of Statistics (NBS) announced on Monday.<\/p>\n<p>NBS director&nbsp;Ning Jizhe said \u201c2021 saw about 5 million fewer women of childbearing age (between 15 and 49) than in the previous year,\u201d while discussing China\u2019s latest population data&nbsp;at a press conference on January 17.<\/p>\n<figure id=\"D-ROS-B1\" class=\"a8d\"><\/figure>\n<figure id=\"M-ROS-B1\" class=\"a8d\"><\/figure>\n<figure id=\"gmxrevmore\" class=\"H\"><\/figure>\n<p>Ning said the drop in the number of childbearing-aged women in China was the \u201cmain cause\u201d of a related decrease in the number of newborns recorded in the country in 2021.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cOther factors included delaying marriage and births due to the intentions of couples and the pandemic,\u201d he revealed.<\/p>\n<p>The NBS recorded 10.62 million new births in China in 2021, a figure that barely exceeded the number of deaths (10.14 million) reported nationally for the same year. China\u2019s birthrate, or the number of births per one thousand people, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.wsj.com\/articles\/chinas-population-barely-grew-in-2021-as-births-dropped-for-a-fifth-year-11642385947\">fell<\/a> from 8.52 in 2020 to 7.52 in 2021.<\/p>\n<figure id=\"M-ROS-B2\" class=\"a8d\"><\/figure>\n<p>China\u2019s population at the end of 2021 was 1.413 billion, or an increase of just 0.034 percent from the 1.412 billion people documented in China at the end of 2020, according to NBS data released on Monday.<\/p>\n<div id=\"attachment_16051340\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/01\/China-baby-mask.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-16051340\" src=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/01\/China-baby-mask.jpg\" alt=\"TOPSHOT - A woman wearing a face mask holds a baby that wears a protective shield during rush hour on a street outside of a shopping mall complex in Wuhan on January 13, 2021. - A team of WHO experts will land directly in Wuhan on January 14, 2021, China&#039;s foreign ministry said, starting their long-delayed probe into Covid-19 at the virus epicentre. (Photo by NICOLAS ASFOURI \/ AFP) (Photo by NICOLAS ASFOURI\/AFP via Getty Images)\" width=\"640\" height=\"480\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p class=\"wp-caption-text\"><em>A woman wearing a face mask holds a baby that wears a protective shield during rush hour on a street outside of a shopping mall complex in Wuhan on January 13, 2021. (NICOLAS ASFOURI\/AFP via Getty)<\/em><\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p>Chinese&nbsp;demographers anticipated a \u201cpopulation zero-growth period\u201d for China from 2021 to 2025, according to&nbsp;Du Peng, a sociology and population studies professor at the Renmin University of China. Du told China\u2019s state-run&nbsp;<em>Global Times<\/em> on Monday demographers based this grim prognostication on China\u2019s <a href=\"https:\/\/www.who.int\/data\/maternal-newborn-child-adolescent-ageing\/indicator-explorer-new\/mca\/women-of-reproductive-age-(15-49-years)-population-(thousands)\">waning<\/a> new births and <a href=\"http:\/\/www.stats.gov.cn\/english\/PressRelease\/202105\/t20210510_1817185.html\">aging<\/a> population, which had already become evident in recent years.<\/p>\n<p>\u201c[T]he general trend of zero growth will not be altered,\u201d Du predicted of China\u2019s population prospects on January 17.<\/p>\n<p>China\u2019s ruling Communist Party has long <a href=\"https:\/\/www.breitbart.com\/asia\/2021\/12\/10\/report-china-deletes-editorial-demanding-communists-have-3-children\/\">imposed<\/a> limits on the number of children couples in the country may have. Beijing currently allows families to have up to three children. The Chinese Communist Party raised the child limit to three in May 2020 after previously increasing it to two in 2016. The Chinese Communist Party allowed couples to have no more than one child from about 1980 until 2016. Beijing imposed its infamous \u201cone-child policy\u201d in the late 1970s in an effort to control what was then a booming Chinese population, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.breitbart.com\/national-security\/2011\/09\/22\/china-s-one-child-policy-toll-reaches-400-million\/\">killing<\/a> over 400 million people.<\/p>\n<p>China now <a href=\"https:\/\/www.breitbart.com\/asia\/2021\/11\/05\/birth-rate-collapse-china-province-proposes-nearly-one-year-paid-maternity-leave\/\">suffers<\/a> from not only the prospect of a shrinking population but also demographic warping after the \u201cone-child policy,\u201d coupled with a cultural preference for boys, caused generations of Chinese women to selectively abort their female babies for over four decades. The result is a modern population in which the number of Chinese men aged 20 to 40 years old outnumbers Chinese women in the same age group by 17.5 million.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The number of women of childbearing age \u2014 between 15 and 49 years old \u2014 in China decreased in 2021 by 5 million, China\u2019s National Bureau of Statistics (NBS) announced &#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":2315279,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_mo_disable_npp":"","fifu_image_url":"","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1223945","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1223945","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1223945"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1223945\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2315279"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1223945"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1223945"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1223945"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}