There are now more seniors than children in China. Photo: AP 

SCMP: China’s population could halve within the next 45 years, new study warns 

China's population decline may be much faster than expected, with the number of people in the country halving within the next 45 years, a new study has warned. 

The projection was based on the official birth rate of 1.3 children per woman last year - well below the figure of 2 needed to keep the number stable - and forecast a much more dramatic decline than previous estimates. 

China's current population is over 1.4 billion and in 2019 the United Nations projected that China would still have around 1.3 billion people by 2065.  

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WNU Editor: When I was living and working in China in the mid-1980s I was told by one of my Chinese hosts that for China to be a superpower in the future, with the territory and resources that it had, it had to have a population around 600 million. It likes that goal is going to be reached before the end of this century.

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