The Rising Influence of Rising Affluence

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China’s lifetime birth rate—>1.3:

https://www.nytimes.com/2021/05/11/world/asia/china-census-population-one-child-policy.html

On average, Chinese women are expected to have just 1.3 children each over the course of their lives. That would be one of the lowest fertility rates in the world.

… Last year, just 12 million babies were born in China, the lowest official number since 1961, as the country was emerging from a devastating famine.

Experts cautioned that the pandemic may have been a major factor, but births have now declined for four consecutive years.

Data are from China’s 2020 census.