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‘China will never surpass the USA’

Yi Fuxian is a demography expert at the University of Wisconsin-Madison.
Until now, China was the most populous country in the world. But now the population is declining – and earlier than expected; India is currently surpassing it. In an interview with Felix Lee, demography expert Yi Fuxian explains the consequences for society, the economy and the rest of the world.

Mr Yi, for the first time since the great famine of 1961, China’s population decreased last year, nine years earlier than predicted. Is that not a reason to celebrate for the communist leadership? After all, the threat of overpopulation was the reason why the one-child policy was introduced in 1980.

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