It’s not so weird when that country has about 1 out of every 6 humans on earth, and when 10.56 million people died in China in 2022. They’re experiencing decline not growth.

[–] Showroom7561@lemmy.ca -4 points 1 year ago (1 children)

I didn't say it was weird. The numbers are still incredible.

And with nearly 1.5 BILLION people, it's not like they'll run out of people.

This isn't a Children of Men situation.

[–] wahming@lemmy.world 1 points 1 year ago (1 children)

The number of people is irrelevant in the context, only the birth vs death rate. For context, there were about 10.5 million deaths in China last year. For social stability, you'd want the population to at most have a slight decline. A 50% higher death rate than birth rate is NOT slight.

[–] Showroom7561@lemmy.ca -1 points 1 year ago

Again, adding over 7 million people is what's important, and it's a huge number.

We're talking about a loss of 3 million once you factor in deaths. If it was a country like Canada, with a population of less than 50 million people, that would be problematic.

But with a population pool of 1.5 billion, what's the actual concern? What social instability does this cause that a population of 1.5 billion already doesn't?

There will never be too few people in China, and a slow population decline from 1.5 billion allows for a more sustainable future.

[–] Pyr_Pressure@lemmy.ca 4 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Well, they also could be having 90% of a major city's worth of people dying every year, but I haven't looked up the exact number.

[–] Showroom7561@lemmy.ca 1 points 1 year ago

Someone said around 10 million die per year. But old people die. Everywhere.

But they are “replaced” by 7 million+ babies.

Let's not forget that China STILL limits the number of children you can have, and limited families to one child for decades before the limit was raised to two, then three. They don't really want more people.

[–] agarorn@feddit.de 3 points 1 year ago

Scale matters.