China's population falls for the first time in 60 years

Contributing sentiments towards policy:

52% : The latest figures come months after the United Nations declared in a report that India would surpass China as the world's most populous country in 2023.
46% : In a series of tweets, Yi Fuxian, an expert on Chinese population trends at the University of Wisconsin-Madison, said that the data reflected how China's population began to decline nine to 10 years earlier than projections by Chinese officials and the United Nations.

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