China’s Three-Child Policy
On 31st May, 2021, China announced that married couples may have up to three children - in a major shift from a limit of two after recent data showed a dramatic decline in births in the world’s most populous country.
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- China had a fertility rate of just 1.3 children per woman in 2020, recent data showed, on par with ageing societies like Japan and Italy and far short of the roughly 2.1 needed for replacement level.
- China scrapped its decades-old one-child policy in 2016, replacing it with a two-child limit to try and stave off risks to its economy from ....
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