As China's birth rate hits an all-time low in 2022, India is poised to overtake the Communist giant as the world's most populous country in the next few years. The National Bureau of Statistics announcement comes at a time when China's economic growth fell to its second-lowest in five decades, registering a paltry three per cent increase in 2022. China’s …
The world's most populous country, China, saw its population dwindle last year for the first time in six decades, the National Bureau of Statistics revealed on Tuesday. In 2022, China's birth rate was 6.77 births per 1,000 people, down from a rate of 7.52 births in the previous year and as a result, marked the lowest birth rate on record, …