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China's population is about to shrink for the first time since the great famine struck 60 years ago. Here's what it means for the world

  • Written by Xiujian Peng, Senior Research Fellow, Victoria University
China's population is about to shrink for the first time since the great famine struck 60 years ago. Here's what it means for the worldShutterstock

The world’s biggest nation is about to shrink.

China accounts for more than one sixth of the world’s population.

Yet after four extraordinary decades in which China’s population swelled from 660 million to 1.4 billion, its population is on track to turn down this year, for the first time since the great famine of...

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