An aging population and shrinking workforce compound its difficulties. …More than a fifth of Chinese youths aged 16 to 24 were unemployed in April. …Foreign direct investment into China tumbled 48% in 2022 compared with a year earlier. If that list of problems is not sufficiently compelling,...
TAIPEI--China’s population fell last year for the third straight year, its government said Friday, pointing to further demographic challenges for the world’s second most populous nation, which is now facing both an aging population and an emerging shortage of working age people. China’s popul...
China has the world’s largest labor market even though its working-age population is shrinking. The labor force (age 16+, and capable of working) stood at around 733.5 million in 2022. At the beginning of 2022, the number of employed people was around 402 million. ...
China, the manufacturing hub of the world, is under threat of losing that title. Its population is aging fast as the one-child policy begins to bite, and this could lead to a huge labor shortfall by 2050, according to experts.
ultimately leading to an era in the 1990s known as “the lost decade” during which economic growth stagnated as population growth stalled. By 2008, Japan’s population began to decline—and that continues today. Economists believe this decline is one of the main reasons the Japanese...
Population aging in the People’s Republic of China (PRC) is mainly due to rapid fertility decline after 1970, a third of which was due to government
4. To stop its population from shrinking further, China will make fertility services like IVF more accessible. (New York Times $) 5. Young women, often rookie protesters galvanized by feminism, have become the new face of dissent in China. (Wall Street Journal $) ...
Common prosperity is the essential aspiration of all the Chinese people, and China’s entry into a period of common prosperity coincides with the era of the digital economy. This paper analyzes the impact of the digital economy on the urban-rural income
data from the National Health Commission (NHC) shows. The proportion of people over 65 has grown from 9.1 percent in 2011 to 14.2 percent in 2021, which means the working-age population is shrinking quickly. Dependency ratios are rising as the population ages, straining the country's pension...
“Due to reasons such as the high cost of childbearing and the difficulty for women to balance family and work, the Chinese people’s willingness to have children is almost the lowest in the world,” the report said. “It is no exaggeration to describe the current population situation as a...