China's fertility rate is estimated to have dropped to a record low of 1.09 in 2022, the National Business Daily said on Tuesday, a figure likely to rattle authorities as they try to boost the country's declining number of new births.

China’s fertility rate is estimated to have dropped to a record low of 1.09 in 2022, the National Business Daily said on Tuesday, a figure likely to rattle authorities as they try to boost the country’s declining number of new births.

  • @deegeese@sopuli.xyzEnglish
    7•2 years ago

    Crude birth rate bounces around for a lot of reasons.

    The fertility rate, which has nothing to do with individual fertility, is a better statistical measure of population trends.

    • ijeffEnglish
      8•2 years ago

      I’m thinking more in terms of the terminology used rather than the methodology.

      • @deegeese@sopuli.xyzEnglish
        16•2 years ago

        A lot of technical terminology sounds weird to people outside the field.

        “Fertility rate” is standard in demography.