China is in the midst of a drastic population decline fueled by its infamous one-child policy and threatening its long-term economic growth.
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Roughly half of each of the past two generations of Chinese never saw the light of day because of abortions coerced under the one-child policy. Before the beginning of the one-child policy in 1981 Chinese women were averaging 2.7 children, a number that the policy quickly cut in half. University of Wisconsin demographer Yi Fuxian believes that China’s official population numbers are inflated — that the real figure is somewhere below 1.28 billion.
From Mao Zedong onward, Chinese leaders have always treated the nation’s masses as an inexhaustible resource. None of the tools available — such as lower interest rates, export subsidies, and infrastructure investment — will compensate or 100 million empty cradles. But even should the Chinese Communist Party fall, so intractable is China’s birth dearth that it would be a major challenge to overcome for any future government, however democratic.
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