2023年6月19日 · Based on the United Nations 2022 World Population Prospects, 30% of the population in China, an estimated 400 million people, will be aged 60 and over. Declining birth rates will lead to a declining working age population, resulting in China’s growth being reduced by 1% every year from 2035-2050, according to the Shanghai Academy of Social ...

2022年7月26日 · China's population is on track to decline for the first time since the great famine of 1959-1961; The country’s total fertility rate decreased from 2.6 in the late 1980s – well above the 2.1 needed to replace deaths – to just 1.15 in 2021. Researchers predict China's elderly population will overtake its working-age population around 2080.

2020年11月24日 · China and India are the two largest countries in terms of population size. India's population is predicted to reach over 1.6 billion around 2060. India is on target to overtake China’s total population in 2026, when both countries …

2023年3月16日 · As China's 1.4 billion population declines and ages, in part because of a policy that limited couples to one child from 1980 to 2015, pressure on pension budgets is escalating. Economists say that the current pension system, which relies on a shrinking active workforce to pay the pensions of a growing number of retirees, is unsustainable and ...

2016年6月23日 · First, China’s population peaked in 2012 and its labour force is now declining. Second, as China is catching up economically with the rest of the world and is approaching the innovation frontier, leaps in productivity can no longer stem from knowledge transfers but must increasingly be driven by domestic innovation.

2023年9月21日 · China: The era of negative population growth The legacy of China’s one-child policy (in place between 1980 and 2015) was laid bare in 2022 when the country’s population fell by around 850,000 , its first drop since 1961 and the start of what the National People’s Congress called “ the era of negative population growth ”.

2021年7月16日 · Structural unemployment, most prevalent in China's high-skilled sector, has a lot to do with an educational gap in the economy: China has 170 million skilled workers but, among the total employed population, only 7% are high-skilled personnel (about 48 million) deemed capable of performing complicated tasks and able to adapt quickly to ...

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2017年8月31日 · China is not only skewing older and more male – it is also losing its strong base of younger workers that could potentially support the rest of the population. Image: US Census Bureau IDB China’s “population pyramid” is not really a pyramid at all – in the coming decades, it’ll look more like a single pillar stuck propping up a ...

China's population, by contrast, is expected to fall slightly from 1.426 billion to 1.416 billion over the same period. The two countries' populations remain significantly ahead of all other nations – nowhere else will have a population beyond 360 million by 2030.