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China's birth rate hits 60-year low
China had 850,000 fewer people at the end of 2022 compared with the previous year.
China's National Bureau of Statistics says the country's population has fallen for the first time in 60 years as it enters what officials describe as an era of negative population growth. (Picture: A nurse helps a new born bathe in Huaian Maternal and Child Health Hospital, East China's Jiangsu province. Credit: Getty Images.)
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