China’s population declined for a third straight year in 2024, the National Bureau of Statistics of China reported on Friday.
The total population of China stood at 1.408 billion at the end of 2024, a decline of 1.39 million from 2023, according to the press release. The country’s continuous population decline is largely due to low fertility rates, which have been steadily declining for half a century.
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China’s population is continuing to shrink despite Beijing’s thorough attempts to encourage more births, Bloomberg reported on Wednesday.
The Chinese population sharply declined by 2 million people in 2023, more than double the loss of the prior year, according to official data China’s government released on Wednesday. Beijing has tried to alleviate the crisis by scrapping its one-child policy and encouraging families to have more children, but those efforts have had little effect in stalling or reversing the decline.
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