The world's most populated nation has recorded its first population decline in declares, according to a new report released by the National Bureau of Statistics. This disparity between total men and women can be, at least in part, attributed to the strict one-child policy that was implemented in the late 1970s / early 1980s. Yi Fuxian, an expert on Chinese population trends at the University of Wisconsin-Madison, took to Twitter to write that China's population decline began at least nine years earlier than projections by the United Nations. This means that China's "real demographic crisis is beyond imagination and that all of China's past ... policies were based on faulty demographic data." Adding, "China's demographic and economic outlook is much bleaker than expected."

Source: ABC News January 17, 2023 14:03 UTC