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China’s collapsing birth and marriage rates reflect a people’s deep pessimism
- bell-cot 4y agoSaying "China" is probably good for the WP's bottom line and editorial agenda. But the same principal applies everywhere. (As the story briefly admits.)
- gewzk 4y agoI kinda reflect on this situation to Korea. I mean, their birth and marriage rates really did strike the lowest these years.
- em500 4y agoThis is a fluff piece catering to the prejudices of a data illiterate audience. It makes a big fuss about a 46% decline in births (absolute, not birth rates) and marriages in the last 6 years, and tries to correlate this to the dystopian Xi regime. But it neglects to mention that in the same time frame, the number of young women entering their early 20s declined by 44% [1], a result of big huge plunge in births starting in the early 1990s. [1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Demographics_of_China https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Demographics_of_China