The Chinese regime may be downplaying how fast its population is shrinking, and a recent policy to promote three-child families has poor chances of improving birth rates, a fertility expert told the Reuters Next conference on Friday.
Fuxian Yi, senior scientist in the obstetrics and gynecology department at the University of Wisconsin, said he estimated that the regime’s 2020 population was 1.28 billion rather than the 1.41 billion census number reported and that fertility rates were lower than reported.
