This was the first contraction of Beijing’s natural population since 2003.
Beijing:
The death rate in China’s capital Beijing will exceed its birth rate in 2022, official data showed on Tuesday, pushing its natural population growth into negative territory for the first time since 2003.
The death rate in the city of 21.84 million, one of the country’s most populous urban centres, rose to 5.72 deaths per 1,000 people, while the birth rate fell to 5.67 births per 1,000 people, official figures released by the Beijing government showed.
Beijing’s population decline was in line with national trends, with China’s population declining for the first time in six decades last year, especially in large, sprawling cities like Beijing due to rising costs of living, weak economic growth and a shift toward raising families. The weight was lost because of the attitude. ,
In early December, a nationwide lifting of strict COVID-19 restrictions triggered a wave of infections and an unknown number of deaths.
This was the first contraction of Beijing’s natural population since 2003, with natural population growth minus 0.05 per 1,000 people last year.
The data was based on a sample survey that began on November 1, according to a footnote in the release, which did not specify how long the survey took.
China’s birth rate last year was 6.77 births per 1,000 people, the lowest on record, while the country’s death rate, the highest since 1974, stood at 7.37 deaths per 1,000 people.
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