Why China is Shrinking VERY Fast

Two points that make resolving China's demographic problems more difficult. -China isn't just having trouble attracting immigrants, its actively losing hundreds of thousands of people a year to emmigration. -The decline of birth rates isn't just because of the one child policy. Other east Asian countries have experienced similar birth rate problems. The one child policy just exacerbated other trends, making it all the more potent and also meaning that fixing it is going to be a lot more difficult than reversing the policy.

I think there was a missed opportunity to talk about how work culture has become just as crippling to the childbirth rate, but there are so many factors that're damning China for the next century.

"more people than... and Australia combined" always makes me laugh because Aus is pretty much a big country by landmass alone, it has good drama factor on a world map for anyone who doesn't live here XD

0:30 Calling the massive death in the 1960's a "famine" obfuscates the fact that it was entirely avoidable and largely had to do with Mao's policy of "industrialization" in the Great Leap Forward.

Slightly unrelated but the official Brazilian census just reported 203 million people which is far below the official numbers of around 216 million you will see if you google it. Population growth was very slow as well. A true China census might indicate their population is actually a good bit lower than what is believed. Birth rates look VERY bad.

One small addendum: Even though the policy is now widely known as the "one child policy", that's technically not correct, as it was a "one birth policy". Of course, most often these two amount to the same thing, but the important difference being that if you gave birth to more than one child at a time, ie twins, you didn't have to give any up, and got to keep all of them. So in essence, you were allowed more than one kid, granted they were all part of the same birth.

0:50 I used to go to school through this place everyday, it's the anand vihar bus terminal and the building you see behind is the pacific mall and that stairway bridge connects to the anand vihar metro station blue line

The issue of immigration into China stems from difficulties obtaining long-term residency permits and ultimately the lack of a streamlined process for naturalization/obtaining citizenship. In order for a foreigner to obtain citizenship, they must have immediate family that holds Chinese nationality, possess permanent residency, and have legitimate reasons for naturalizing, which is rather vague and all of which is under the discretion of the immigration department to accept of reject.

The guy who first suggested the One Child Policy: "I shouldn't have said that. I should NOT have said that."

The graphics are great, especially the population curves moving through time. Presenting abstract data in such a visually vivid form is really helpful to understanding it.

Videos like this are always fascinating, and here you make it relatively simple to follow along and is well written, researched and edited. Kudos!

Great information and superb graphics. Thanks for sharing it. ❤🎉

Population Decreasing: China: "OH NO!" Japan: "First Time?"

I lived in China, speak Mandarin, and worked with local Chinese businesses. Yet, because I am not Han and I am not another local 少数民族 (minority ethnic group), I was never allowed to assimilate. Even my friends who are completely fluent and married to local Chinese people aren't ever allowed to assimilate. Being consistently othered is tiring. It drains you, saps you of energy. Large scale long lasting immigration into an ethno-centric country like China is unlikely to happen, and there certainly won't be enough migrants for China to deal with its coming demographic crisis.

Insightful and well presented.

That last segment just sounds like my brain when I play Paradox grand strategy games.

China's also got a different problem weighing on demographics that the government doesn't want to fix: the 9-9-6 schedule 9am to 9pm 6 days a week. That keeps wages low, but it also keeps youth unemployment high (+20%) and makes family life very difficult

I’m not so convinced that indias population will rise to such lofty heights. In much of India there is already a significant slowing of birth rates. There is still rapid growth in populations around the major cities of Delhi, Mumbai, Calcutta, Bangalore and other cities, however a lot of this is being driven by migration from regional and rural areas.

killer gfx, well used. keep on truckin

I like how 22:00 mentions that as China's population decreases, the wage of the average Chinese worker will go up and that this will kill their economy. It's telling how the population "crisis" of the world's population retracting is always talked about as a disaster...because it destroys the bottom line of the owners, not the workers. Smaller developed populations have higher quality of lives all across the board and the biggest developed countries like the US and China are fraying apart at the seams with a massive amount of mentally ill people and social disruptions, but population decline is always portrayed as a black and white issue where small=bad and big=good despite the fact that if you're in the bottom 99% of wealth holders in a nation, living in a big populous country is almost universally awful for you. That's why Japan hasn't turned to the solution the west has to ethnically displace its native population with mass immigration, because they recognize that for the people, having a smaller population is a good thing, and they're willing to let their billionaire class lose a bit of wealth to have a mentally healthy nation of united 99%ers instead of the capitalistic nightmare North America and western Europe have opted for.