A million more births this year
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At least a million more births are expected in 2015 than last year, as a result of changes to China’s one-child policy.
A total of 16.9 million new Chinese citizens came into the world in 2014, 470,000 more than in 2013, the China Population Association said yesterday.
It said the annual number of newborns had decreased since the 1990s from more than 20 million to around 16 million. The lowest number was 15.8 million in 2006.
Yang Wenzhuang of the National Health and Family Planning Commission said the number of Chinese women at childbearing age had declined while the number of births had increased, showing the effect of changes to the birth control policy.
The changed policy was piloted in east China’s Zhejiang Province in January last year, and now couples nationwide can choose to have a second child if either parent is an only child.
As the end of 2014, around a million couples had applied for a second child.
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