China’s robot revolution foreshadows its looming population collapse
China’s robot revolution foreshadows its looming population collapse
- October 23, 2025
- Wang Feng, sociology, The Hill, Oct. 23, 2025
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China’s working age population, the 15-59 age cohort, peaked in 2011 and probably will fall faster than the population as a whole. “China has embarked on a road of demographic no-return,” writes Wang Feng of the University of California, Irvine.
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