China downplays India overtaking it as most populous nation

By Press Trust of India: China on Wednesday sought to downplay India overtaking it as a result of the world’s most populous nation with 142.86 crore of us, saying that it nonetheless has a “quality” workforce of close to 900 million of us to supply a strong impetus for development.

According to the latest United Nations Population Fund information, India surpassed China to develop into the world’s most populous nation with 142.86 crore of us. China which has a inhabitants of 142.57 crore has now develop into the second most populous nation, the UN world inhabitants dashboard confirmed.

Asked for his response to the report, Chinese Foreign Ministry spokesman Wang Wenbin instructed a media briefing proper right here “when assessing a country’s demographic dividend, we need to look at not just the size but also the quality of its population”.

“Size matters, but what matters more is talent resource. Nearly 900 million out of the 1.4 billion Chinese are of working age and on average have received 10.9 years of education,” he talked about.

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For those who have newly entered the workforce, their widespread dimension of coaching has risen to 14 years, he talked about.

On the ageing inhabitants, he talked about China has utilized a nationwide method to answer to inhabitants ageing, along with a third-child protection and supporting measures to deal with demographic changes.

“China’s population is over 1.4 billion. Those in the working age is close to 900 million and that group of populations is 10.5 years of education on average,” he talked about.

Wang talked about China has taken full of life measures to care for the ageing inhabitants.

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“As Premier Li Qiang pointed out, China’s demographic dividend has not disappeared, and our talent dividend is in the making. The driving force for China’s development remains strong,” he talked about.

According to a model new UNFPA report, 25 per cent of India’s inhabitants is throughout the age group of 0-14 years, 18 per cent throughout the 10 to 19 age group, 26 per cent throughout the age bracket of 10 to 24 years, 68 per cent in 15 to 64 years age group, and 7 per cent above 65 years.

In March, Premier Li Qiang whereas addressing the media after he took over the put up talked about, “when assessing demographic dividend, we shall not just look at the sheer size of the population but also look at the scale of high-caliber workforce.”

On China’s worsening demographic catastrophe attributable to falling supply prices and an rising outdated age inhabitants, Li talked about China has nearly 900 million working-age inhabitants and 15 million of us be a part of the workforce yearly, he well-known.

More than 240 million of us have obtained larger coaching in China, and the widespread dimension of coaching obtained by newcomers into the workforce has elevated to 14 years, he talked about.

China’s demographic catastrophe deepened in 2022 as its inhabitants entered a unfavourable half with the supply value declining by 8.50 lakh of us to 1.4118 billion.

China’s whole inhabitants declined by 850,000 of us year-on-year to 1.4118 billion in 2022, inserting the pure growth value at unfavourable 0.6 per 1,000 of us, the National Bureau of Statistics (NBS) talked about in January this 12 months.

According to the National Health Commission on the end of 2020, there have been 264 million of us over the age of 60 in mainland China, and that entire is projected to surge to 400 million and account for larger than 30 per cent of China’s inhabitants by 2035.

China’s demographic catastrophe was largely attributed to the numerous years of One-China protection utilized by the ruling Communist Party of China (CPC) to handle the inhabitants.

China’s concern at present is not merely a declining inhabitants, which was accentuated by the decades-old one Child, scrapped in 2016 nonetheless a rapidly ageing inhabitants. As per the revised protection, Chinese might have three children.

China utilized a third-child protection in May of 2021 and rolled out a set of stimulus measures to boost inhabitants growth. Various cities, provinces and areas all through the nation have rolled out incentive insurance coverage insurance policies akin to issuing subsidies to households with a second or third teenager.

According to the NBS announcement, the nation registered about 9.56 million new-borns remaining 12 months, down from 10.62 million in 2021.

China’s supply value stood at 6.77 births per 1,000 of us in 2022, down from 7.52 in 2021.

China’s entire inhabitants measurement peaked in 2022, so much earlier than anticipated, which suggests the nation’s inhabitants will protect unfavourable growth from 2023 or enter an interval of unfavourable growth, Cai Fang, former deputy director of the Chinese Academy of Social Sciences, talked about beforehand.

Yuan Xin, a professor from the Institute of Population and Development at Nankai University’s School of Economics, instructed the official media in January that in 2022 unfavourable inhabitants growth is the inevitable outcomes of the nation’s long-term low fertility value, and China’s inhabitants has entered an interval of zero growth.