• Zoboomafoo@yiffit.net
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          1 year ago

          Because they’re having less babies than is needed to maintain or grow their population

          2.1 babies/woman is about what’s needed to maintain a population, China was at 1.09 last year

          • Num10ck@lemmy.world
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            1 year ago

            their 1 Child per family policy for decades has left them with a gigantic pile of elderly and not nearly enough working age people to support them. not to mention the young people have no training on how to support their infrastructure or manufacturing tools.

            • MindSkipperBro12@lemmy.world
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              I’ve also heard that they abort mostly female fetuses compared to male fetuses. Don’t know why, culture or something, but could also be a lie.

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                1 year ago

                because if you can only have 1 child to support the family in the future you need to have the one that gets educated and paid. it went on for decades. if you search youtube for the word ‘china’ theres countless recent explanations of the various ways they are collapsing.

          • 👁️👄👁️@lemm.ee
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            1 year ago

            Some religious extremists try to argue abortion is bad, but really it’s bad when we cut a person up into 1/10ths. Strangely silent, hmmm.

        • Dr. Bluefall@toast.ooo
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          Birth rates falling way below replacement levels, AFAIK. Last number I heard was 1.09 or something