O gigante asiático está enfrentando um dramático declínio populacional, com uma taxa de fertilidade de 1,0, bem abaixo da taxa de reposição de 2,1.
- Professor of Sociology, Texas A&M University
The Asian giant is grappling with a dramatic population decline, with a fertility rate of 1.0, well below the 2.1 replacement rate.
By 2100, China’s population will likely be half its current size. It will also be a lot older, with fewer working-age men and women.
Detailed data on the ages at which people die can give good indications of a person’s remaining life span.
Following a 30-year boy-to-girl birth rate imbalance, up to 800,000 ‘extra’ men born since the mid-1980s will be unable to find a South Korean woman to marry. That has big demographic consequences.
Desde 2022, o índice de nascimentos é menor que o de. mortes na China. Com a população encolhendo, as taxas de crescimento econômico podem cair a médio e longo prazo.
Chinese politicians have looked toward policies to encourage couples to have more children to offset population decline. It hasn’t worked.
South Korea’s fertility rate fell below the level needed to sustain a population in the mid-1980s – and it never recovered. It is now below one child per woman during her reproductive years.
The US Census Bureau has announced which states will gain and lose representation in Congress as a result of the 2020 census. Here’s how it makes the calculations.
Census data are used to determine federal funding on everything from highway construction to poverty services. With many students heading back to their parents’ homes, college towns may take a hit.
By 2050, the majority of Americans will not be white. That future is already on its way here – just look at the demographics of kids ages 10 and under.
The number of old people will increase, while the proportion of white Americans will continue to fall.
A new bill aims to give the District of Columbia representation in Congress.
By 2050, the US will be a ‘majority-minority’ country, with white non-Hispanics making up less than half of the total population.
If undocumented immigrants choose not to fill out the questionnaire, then the official population of several states would deflate, costing them House seats and federal funding.
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