The end of China as a great power: Population collapse | Opinion
The end of China as a great power: Population collapse | Opinion
- December 23, 2024
- Wang Feng, sociology, Newsweek, Dec. 23, 2024 (Opinion)
China's population, reported to be 1.41 billion, will drop to 330 million by the end of the century, predicts Yi Fuxian of the University of Wisconsin-Madison. This startling conclusion is included in a paper to be published in the Winter 2024 issue of the Contemporary China Review. He's not the only one concerned. "China has embarked on a road of demographic no-return," writes Wang Feng of the University of California, Irvine. … as Wang Feng points out, "No country has successfully raised fertility with government policies."
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