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.

  • ijeff@lemdro.idEnglish
    171·
    1 year ago

    I find the term ‘fertility’ instead of ‘birth rate’ weird. Plenty of people are capable of having children but are choosing not to for a variety of reasons.

    • deegeese@sopuli.xyzEnglish
      5·
      1 year 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.

      • ijeff@lemdro.idEnglish
        81·
        1 year ago

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

        • deegeese@sopuli.xyzEnglish
          13·
          1 year ago

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

          “Fertility rate” is standard in demography.