Chinese authorities announced Monday that they will modify their family planning measures. From 2016 until today, citizens could have up to two children. From now on they can have three.
The government’s decision comes after the numbers of the last census in China, which showed a reduction in the birth rate. As reported by the state news agency Xinhua, it is to respond to the “aging population.”
Before, until 2015, there was a policy in that country according to which you could only have one child. But in the census presented on May 11, they found that there is a strong population aging and low birth rate.
Currently, China has almost 1,412 million inhabitants. During 2020, with the pandemic, the number of births fell to 12 million, against 14.65 million in 2019. In that year the birth rate was already at the lowest level since the founding of Communist China in 1949.
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