To control the demographic crisis in 2015 China government made a policy about one-child. After that China has reported that since the 1950s they had the slowest population growth.

According to the National Bureau of Statistics, the population of mainland China increased by 72 million to 1.412 billion during the years. The growth rate of 5.38 percent was the lowest in 1953.

The reported slowdown is expected but is a sign China has yet appropriately address the social workers behind fewer people having children, including delayed marriages, high cost of living, and stalled social mobility. According to the National Bureau of Statistics officially 12 million babies born in 2020.

The census also reported the part of citizens aged over 65 grew from 8.9% in 2010 to 13.5%, while the proportion of children grew by 1.35% while the working population still steady.

Ning Jizhe, the deputy head of the census leading group, acknowledged that,

“The number of women of childbearing age … was declining, and there is a postponement of childbearing and the rising cost of child-raising,” “All of these are reasons behind the decline on newborns.”

In November 2020 the census takers went to door to door

To gather the results between 7 million. For the impact of covid or unaligned birthrates with the government, the release had been delayed more than one month.

“For Chinese authorities, the population is getting increasingly sensitive and when numbers get sensitive like you saw with GDP data, that’s where you see possibilities for data getting massaged, and I think you have to flag that as a potential question,” said Minzner.