Why is China's birth rate declining | FT #shorts

Just under 8 million babies were born in China last year. That might sound like a lot, but it's actually not. It's almost half the pre- pandemic figure.Demographers were shocked at this record low birth number, the lowest since records began in 1949, and warned that China's population could be aging at a faster rate than even the most pessimistic forecasts had estimated. At the heart of this baby bust is the fact that there aren't enough young Chinese people getting married. And that really is a result of h ...