Beijing:
The demise fee in China’s capital Beijing surpassed its delivery fee in 2022, official information confirmed on Tuesday, pushing its pure inhabitants development into damaging territory for the primary time since 2003.
The demise fee within the metropolis of 21.84 million, one of many nation’s most populous city centres, rose to five.72 deaths per 1,000 individuals, whereas the delivery fee fell to five.67 births per 1,000 individuals, official statistics launched by the Beijing authorities confirmed.
Beijing’s inhabitants decline was in step with nationwide tendencies, with China’s inhabitants falling final 12 months for the primary time in six many years, weighed down by rising dwelling prices particularly in huge, sprawling cities like Beijing, weak financial development, and altering attitudes in direction of elevating a household.
In early December, a nationwide lifting of strict COVID-19 curbs triggered a wave of infections and induced an unknown variety of deaths.
It was the primary shrinkage of Beijing’s pure inhabitants since 2003, with the pure inhabitants development at minus 0.05 per 1,000 individuals final 12 months.
The information was based mostly on a pattern survey that started on Nov. 1, in line with a footnote within the launch, which didn’t specify how lengthy the survey took.
China’s delivery fee final 12 months was 6.77 births per 1,000 individuals, the bottom on document, whereas the nation’s demise fee, the best since 1974, was 7.37 deaths per 1,000 individuals.
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