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China’s population is shrinking for the first time in decades
Rush hour in a Beijing subway station. China’s population has shrunk by around 850,000 people in a year. photo
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This is reported by the statistics office in Beijing.
China’s population shrank last year for the first time in decades. At the end of last year, the most populous country in the world had 1.411 billion inhabitants, around 850,000 fewer than a year earlier, the statistics office in Beijing announced today.