Fourth Quarter 2021 Insights and Observations
Submitted by Corrigan Financial, Inc on December 20th, 2021Even after abolishing its one-child policy in 2016, the number of births in China continues to decline. China’s fertility rate, calculated as the number of children a woman has over her lifetime, now stands at 1.3 … well below the 2.1 rate considered to be the replacement level. In fact, China’s fertility rate is now below Japan’s rate of 1.34.