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China birth rate at 60-year low as new census shows population grew slightly to 1.412 billion | South China Morning Post

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Mainland China’s population continued to grow, but at an increasingly slower rate, according to new census data released by the National Bureau of Statistics on May 11, 2021. The results of the once-in-a-decade census found that the country’s population stood at 1.412 billion in 2020, with national birth rates falli…

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