Comment Re:The comparison isn't strictly correct (Score 1) 130
Also the basis of IMDb rec.ars.movies
And semi definitive scripts of Monty python.
Alt.swedish.chef.bork.bork.bork
Good times
Journal Journal: "I want to discuss facts. " 62
You have been linking to conservative blogs and spin sites, which are not accurately representing facts. We could look at factual information instead but you choose not to.
One should think the superior interlocutor would welcome these purportedly inaccurate links.
Truth argues itself. Lay it down. The honest correspondent will say: "Yea, verily, and quite."
Submission + - SPAM: China's Population May Start To Shrink This Year, New Birth Data Suggest
An anonymous reader writes: After many decades of growth, China’s population could begin to shrink this year, suggest data released yesterday by China’s National Bureau of Statistics. The numbers show that in 2021, China’s birth rate fell for the fifth year in a row, to a record low of 7.52 per 1000 people. Based on that number, demographers estimate the country’s total fertility rate—the number of children a person will bear over their lifetime—is down to about 1.15, well below the replacement rate of 2.1 and one of the lowest in the world.
Young couples are deciding against having more children, “despite all the new initiatives and propaganda to promote childbearing,” says Yong Cai, a demographer at the University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill. “China’s population decline will be rapid,” he predicts. The shift from growth to decline has happened startlingly fast. Projections made just a few years ago suggested China’s population would expand until around 2027. Last year, when it announced results from the 2020 census, the statistics bureau still pegged the total fertility rate at 1.3.
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Young couples are deciding against having more children, “despite all the new initiatives and propaganda to promote childbearing,” says Yong Cai, a demographer at the University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill. “China’s population decline will be rapid,” he predicts. The shift from growth to decline has happened startlingly fast. Projections made just a few years ago suggested China’s population would expand until around 2027. Last year, when it announced results from the 2020 census, the statistics bureau still pegged the total fertility rate at 1.3.
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