China’s population dropped by about one million people, a relative drop in the bucket related to the 1.4 billion citizens, but believed to be the first time since the 1950s that the nation has acknowledged a population drop, the Associated Press reports.
The Chinese National Bureau of Statistics reported the population of mainland China dropped by 850,000, to 1.412 billion, after the nation experienced more deaths than births in 2022. Men account for 51.17% of the mainland population. The data did not count the populations of self-governing territories including Macau and Hong Kong, nor did it include Taiwan.