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The fertility numbers I mostly see come from twitter no from real sources. Basically from stooges. Real fertility numbers are more difficult to calculate than just a child per every women. China still putting an entire nation every single year.
False attribution. You think Japan's woes are only due to its low birth rate? It's due to the fall out from the plaza accords, and they never recovered. Their industries failed to be competitive after the real estate bubble burst, which was a result of the currency changes from the plaza accords. They're government allowed US companies to steal their tech secrets and made them limit exports.
Trying to bring in birth rates at the main cause is disingenuous.
I am not picking anything from twitter. Go to Zhihu if you want, there most people believe that the birth numbers are cooked up higher by the stats bureau. Maybe I can post 10 sample answers if you want.
Given that the smallest country has a population less than a 1000, that's no big deal. What matters is can the births replace the current population? Can the births increase the population? Are the births enough to sustain a state's geopolitical ambitions/goals.
Have you read my conversation, I was just replying to a comment which was 50% about Japan's demographics problems.
plawolf
Lieutenant General
Well, if we are being honest, the Ukraine war didn’t and needn’t have disrupted Europe’s energy lifeline to Russia. Even the CIA bombing Nordstream wouldn’t have stopped that if the Europeans government wanted it. If the EU can continue arms shipments to Israel as they are doing a literally genocide in front of the world’s cameras, they could have continued buying Russian oil despite Ukraine if they wanted to.
The Americans staged a coup in Ukraine and literally said, fuck the EU. The Ukraine war was a direct consequence of that American move, just as an American SMO would be inevitable if China or Russia staged a coup in Canada or Mexico to put in power rabidly anti-American leaders in power and start arming the newly couped state up for war.
Washington’s useful idiots in charge of the EU might as well have made ‘fuck the EU’ their new prime directive, as every single one of the major decisions they have taken since would have made perfect sense if you said they were done to fuck the EU over, including this new moronic idea to threaten China with a Trump style trade war.
It's true that TFR numbers provided besides census years are not from directly Chinese bureau of statistics, but calculated by demographers including Chinese ones. However we have relatively fresh data from 2020 directly from Chinese government (census 2020). It was 12 millions births and TFR was provided as 1.3
"China recorded 12 million births in 2020, marking a drop for the fourth consecutive year, while some Chinese demographers warned that China’s number of newborns is likely to drop to below 10 million in a few years, and if no forceful intervention policy is introduced, China’s fertility rate may become the lowest in the world.
The number of newborns in China in 2020 was down from 14.65 million in 2019, and China’s total fertility rate of women of childbearing age was 1.3, a relatively low level, according to the results of the seventh national population census released by the National Bureau of Statistics on Tuesday. "
Now in recent years births have fallen to 9 and 9.5 million. It should be pretty close to the numbers provided by demographers which put China TFR at about 1.1
Basically yes, older people die, sadly and are being replaced by younger people every single year at a relative big nation rate and the death rate is mostly high due, believe or not, Covid. Just 20% of a single generation of males can replace the entire PLA every single year. And the worst or best depending who you ask, is that percentage of births/1000 could increase in the coming years due harsh policies and percentage of deaths/1000 could decrease due better healthcare. The downside is that if the younger population increase unemployment is likely to go higher due China push to Automation.
China's current fertility rate stands at approximately 1.0. Given that the pace of urbanization far outstrips efforts to promote fertility incentives, it is difficult to foresee a significant rebound in the fertility rate within the next 5 to 10 years. Removing barriers to marriage and childbearing will take longer than many anticipate.
manqiangrexue
Brigadier
LOL No. China has a population that is 10X greater than Japan so its buffer is 10X greater, with a government that has much stronger tools for directing the population. Your "more severe than Japan" garbage comes from a straight line extrapolation decades down the line, which is basically an exercise in futility. Japan has no life vigor since being defeated militarily, then economically and currently occupied by the US. China fights for goals and has direction and purpose; it also has many events and trends in the future that are all oppertunities for upward adjustment of the fertility rate. In general, when the West has been supplanted by Chinese power on the global stage, work pressure drops, and coupled with improvements in technology to reduce labor, life quality will increase. More time, less work, nation coming into the world throne are a recipe for higher TRF. None of that is applicable to Japan but fully applicable to China.
China is currently facing the combined West (Anglos + Europe + Japan/SoKo) + India + other anti-China countries (like Mongolia, Vietnam, etc.)
In my opinion, they should have focused on increasing rather than decreasing population. But alas.
People are required not just for the PLA, you need them for your basic economy, R&D, industry, consumption etc.