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February 5, 2013

China's Growing People Problem

Eve Cary, The Diplomat

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On January 18th, the National Bureau of Statistics (NBS) announced that China’s working age population (ages 15-59) had declined in 2012 by 3.45 million, or 0.6 percent, marking the first decline in working population “in a considerable period of time.”

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TAGGED: one-child policy, China

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