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Too little too late. The inverted demographic pyramid and the huge skewed gender ratio are baked in at this point.

• gred 5y ago
  Yeah, China's currently sitting at 1.3 children born per woman -- just like Italy or Spain, which are often cited as the EU "crisis" numbers. This number is even worse than it appears though, since there are so many more men than women to begin with, thanks to the history of sex-selective abortion in the country. 12 million Chinese women were never born because their parents wanted a son instead of a daughter, and that's an extra 1.3 x 12 = 16 million children that will be missing from the next generation. China's population is actually predicted to start shrinking in about 5 years.
  • mlyle 5y ago
    > China's population is actually predicted to start shrinking in about 5 years. A little overall population contraction isn't necessarily dire. The concerning thing is a decreasing fraction of the population being working age. Ultimately, the most dire predictions have China's population halving over the next lifetime, and a sustained, big drop in youth. That's a pretty damning trend.
    • dmix 5y ago
      Maybe this is how we get robots faster? China starts panicking?