Thursday, January 9, 2014

China Demographics


For John, BLUFChina is behind the population curve and will be losing people toward the end of the Century, not that either of us will be around.  Nothing to see here; just move along.



From the web presence Real Clear World, part of Real Clear Politics, we have an article by Mr Joseph Chamie, "Easing China's One-Child Policy Won't Stop Demographic Decline".
In an attempt to mitigate a near-certain demographic future of rapid aging, shrinking labor force and critical gender imbalance, the Chinese government has adjusted its one-child policy.
China has 115 male births per 100 female births and the female fertility rate is 1.6.  Those are not replacement level figures and means a lot of males without brides.  Estimates are up to 25 million males without women.  That is a lot of males getting into trouble.

Isn't demography destiny?

Regards  —  Cliff

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