China's fertility rate is estimated to have dropped to a record low of 1.09 in 2022, the National Business Daily said on Tuesday, a figure likely to rattle authorities as they try to boost the country's declining number of new births.

China’s fertility rate is estimated to have dropped to a record low of 1.09 in 2022, the National Business Daily said on Tuesday, a figure likely to rattle authorities as they try to boost the country’s declining number of new births.

  • ijeffEnglish
    8•11 months ago

    I’m thinking more in terms of the terminology used rather than the methodology.

    • @deegeese@sopuli.xyzEnglish
      16•11 months ago

      A lot of technical terminology sounds weird to people outside the field.

      “Fertility rate” is standard in demography.