China’s collapsing birth and marriage rates reflect a people’s deep pessimism

Posted by selimthegrim on Wednesday March 01, 2023 @08:30AM
from the washingtonpost.com dept.

https://www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/2023/02/28/behind-china-collapse-birth-marriage-rates/

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Re:China’s collapsing birth and marriage rates reflect a peo... by bell-cot on Wednesday March 01, 2023 @08:50AM (#34982346)

Saying "China" is probably good for the WP's bottom line and editorial agenda.

But the same principal applies everywhere. (At the story briefly admits.)

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Re:China’s collapsing birth and marriage rates reflect a peo... by gewzk on Wednesday March 01, 2023 @09:27AM (#34982737)

I kinda reflect on this situation to Korea. I mean, their birth and marriage rates really did strike the lowest these years.

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Re:China’s collapsing birth and marriage rates reflect a peo... by em500 on Wednesday March 01, 2023 @11:24PM (#34991990)

This is a fluff piece catering to the prejudices of a data illiterate audience. It makes a big fuss about a 46% decline in births (absolute, not birth rates) and marriages in the last 6 years, and tries to correlate this to the dystopian Xi regime. But it neglects to mention that in the same time frame, the number of young women entering their early 20s declined by 44% [1], a result of big huge plunge in births starting in the early 1990s.

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Demographics_of_China

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