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