China's birth rate falls to lowest ever: report
China's birth rate last year fell to its lowest since the founding of the People's Republic of China 70 years ago, official data showed yesterday, with looser population controls failing to encourage couples to have more babies. The birth rate stood at 10.94 per thousand, the lowest since 1949 and down from 12.43 per thousand in 2017. The number of babies born in 2018 fell by two million to 15.23 million.
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