In January 2023 China announced it had entered an era of negative population growth. By the end of 2022, the country had 1.41175 people compared with 1.41260 a year earlier - a decline of 850,000. Chinese officials believe this fall in population is going to mark the start of a long-term decline in China’s population. China also has an ageing population with numbers over 60 growing to 19% of the population and set...