{"id":4335,"date":"2024-01-16T23:58:00","date_gmt":"2024-01-17T04:58:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/stillcoviding.ca\/en\/?p=4335"},"modified":"2024-01-17T18:02:55","modified_gmt":"2024-01-17T23:02:55","slug":"chinas-population-dropped-for-a-second-straight-year-as-deaths-jumped-after-covid-lockdowns-ended","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/stillcoviding.ca\/en\/news\/chinas-population-dropped-for-a-second-straight-year-as-deaths-jumped-after-covid-lockdowns-ended\/","title":{"rendered":"China\u2019s population dropped for a second straight year as deaths jumped after COVID lockdowns ended"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>China\u2019s population dropped by 2&nbsp;million people in 2023 in the second straight annual drop as births fell and deaths jumped after the lifting of COVID-19 restrictions, the government said Wednesday.<\/p>\n<p>The number of deaths rose by 690,000 to 11.1&nbsp;million, more than double last year\u2019s increase. Demographers were expecting a sharp rise in deaths because of COVID-19 outbreaks that started at the end of the previous year and continued through February of last year. The total population stood at 1.4&nbsp;billion, the statistics bureau said. China, long the most populated country in the world, dropped into second place behind India in 2023, according to U.N. estimates.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>China\u2019s population dropped by 2&nbsp;million people in 2023 in the second straight annual drop as births fell and deaths jumped after the lifting of COVID-19 restrictions, the government said Wednesday.<\/p>\n<p>The number of deaths rose by 690,000 to 11.1&nbsp;million, more than double last year\u2019s increase. Demographers were expecting a sharp rise in deaths because of COVID-19 outbreaks that started at the end of the previous year and continued through February of last year. The total population stood at 1.4&nbsp;billion, the statistics bureau said. China, long the most populated country in the world, dropped into second place behind India in 2023, according to U.N. estimates.<\/p>\n<div class=\"more-link-wrapper\"><a class=\"more-link\" href=\"https:\/\/stillcoviding.ca\/en\/news\/chinas-population-dropped-for-a-second-straight-year-as-deaths-jumped-after-covid-lockdowns-ended\/\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\">China\u2019s population dropped for a second straight year as deaths jumped after COVID lockdowns ended<\/span><\/a><\/div>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[247,18,150,14,230,314],"class_list":["post-4335","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news","tag-china","tag-covid-19","tag-deaths","tag-sars-cov-2","tag-statistics","tag-zero-covid-policies","entry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/stillcoviding.ca\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4335","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/stillcoviding.ca\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/stillcoviding.ca\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stillcoviding.ca\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stillcoviding.ca\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=4335"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/stillcoviding.ca\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4335\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":4337,"href":"https:\/\/stillcoviding.ca\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4335\/revisions\/4337"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/stillcoviding.ca\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4335"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stillcoviding.ca\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4335"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stillcoviding.ca\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4335"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}