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
    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.