
China's Population Falls For 3rd Consecutive Year
Umer Jamshaid Published January 17, 2025 | 01:00 PM

BEIJING, (UrduPoint / Pakistan Point News / WAM - 17th Jan, 2025) China's total population fell for a third consecutive year to 1.408 billion in 2024 despite an uptick in the number of newborns year-on-year, data released on Friday shows.
According to China Daily, the National Bureau of Statistics stated that by the end of 2024, the total population will have decreased by 1.39 million, a decline compared to the reductions of 2.08 million in 2023 and 850,000 in 2022.
The number of newborns in 2024 reached 9.54 million, up from 9.02 million in 2023. The number of deaths outpaced the number of births by a little margin, standing at 10.93 million, the data shows.
The number of people aged 60 years and older reached 310 million in 2024, or 22 percent of the total population. The ratio of the elderly in 2023 was 21.1 percent.
The nation's urbanisation rate went up by 0.84 percentage points to 67 percent by the end of 2024, the bureau added.
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