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https://www.bbc.com/future/article/20220531-why-chinas-population-is-shrinking

By Xiujian Peng5th June 2022FromThe Conversation

China’s population is set to get smaller for the first time since the great famine struck 60 years ago. Why? And how will this affect the rest of the world?

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The world’s biggest nation is about to shrink.

China accounts for more than one-sixth of the world’s population, yet after four extraordinary decades in which the country’s population has swelled from 660 million to 1.4 billion, its population is on track to turn down this year, for the first time since thegreat famineof 1959-1961.

According to the latest figures from China’sNational Bureau of Statistics, China’s population grew from 1.41212 billion to just 1.41260 billion in 2021 – a record low increase of just 480,000, a mere fraction…