China Population 2024 Declining Reasons. Set alongside china’s 11.1 million deaths in 2023, up 500,000 on 2022, it means china’s population shrank 2.08 million in 2023 after falling 850,000 in 2022. China experienced rapid demographic growth after world war ii:

China’s population decline is getting close to irreversible After peaking at over 1.42 billion in 2021, current forecasts project that china’s population will shrink by over 100 million people by 2050.