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Idk why this is news, fertility and one-child policy outcomes have been obvious for over a decade “Clearly, the situation is becoming urgent. Already the count
by hindsightbias 4y ago
Idk why this is news, fertility and one-child policy outcomes have been obvious for over a decade
“Clearly, the situation is becoming urgent. Already the country's population is ageing fast. The first children born under the one-child policy face the prospect of caring for an ever-increasing number of pensioners.”
https://www.bbc.com/news/world-asia-pacific-11404623 https://www.bbc.com/news/world-asia-pacific-11404623
“Analysis in Laxenburg, Austria, predicts that the ratio of over-65s to 15-to-65-year-olds in China will increase almost threefold between 2010 and 2035. That means for each person over 65 there will be just three working-age people, compared to 10 today” - 2007
https://www.newscientist.com/article/mg19626291-800-china-special-one-child-one-big-problem/ https://www.newscientist.com/article/mg19626291-800-china-sp...
- haltingproblem 4y agoMy question was why did the Chinese intelligentsia not foresee this 20 years ago (2000s) or 30 years ago (1990s) rather than over the past 5-10 years. Even now they don't seem to be attacking it with any vigor.