China’s population has fallen for the first time in 60 years, with the national birth rate hitting a record low – 6.77 births per 1,000 people.
The population in 2022 – 1.4118 billion – fell by 850,000 from 2021.
China’s birth rate has been declining for years, prompting policies to slow the trend.
But seven years after scrapping the one-child policy, it has entered what one official described as an "era of negative population growth".
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