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World Service,17 Jan 2023,26 mins

China's birth rate hits 60-year low

World Business Report

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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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