[Chine] China population: ‘dire reality’ of crisis underlined as coronavirus blamed for tumbling 2020 births

Auteurs : He Huifeng & Luna Sun

Production : South China Morning Post, quotidien de langue anglaise publié à Hong Kong depuis 1903. Sa diffusion s’élève à 104 000 exemplaires. Il est publié par le groupe SCMP, propriété de du groupe Alibaba depuis 2015.

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Date et Heure : 22 novembre 2021, 22:15

– Chinese mothers gave birth to just 12 million babies last year, down from 14.65 million in 2019, as the overall population grew to just 1.412 billion in 2020

– Researchers at Renmin University found the coronavirus particularly dampened the willingness of women under 30 to give birth last year

Source : He Huifeng & Luna Sun, “China population: ‘dire reality’ of crisis underlined as coronavirus blamed for tumbling 2020 births”, South China Morning Post, 22/11/2021. URL : https://www.scmp.com/economy/china-economy/article/3156977/china-population-dire-reality-crisis-underlined-coronavirus (consulté le 22/11/2021).

Photo “à la “une” : China’s overall population rose to 1.412 billion in 2020, but the number of new births fell for a fourth consecutive year to 12 million. © AFP