{"id":55852,"date":"2024-01-17T16:26:06","date_gmt":"2024-01-17T16:26:06","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/?p=55852"},"modified":"2024-01-17T16:26:06","modified_gmt":"2024-01-17T16:26:06","slug":"chinas-population-dropped-for-a-second-straight-year-as-deaths-jumped-after-covid-lockdowns-ended","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/2024\/01\/17\/chinas-population-dropped-for-a-second-straight-year-as-deaths-jumped-after-covid-lockdowns-ended\/","title":{"rendered":"China&#8217;s population dropped for a second straight year as deaths jumped after COVID lockdowns ended"},"content":{"rendered":"<span class=\"span-reading-time rt-reading-time\" style=\"display: block;\"><span class=\"rt-label rt-prefix\">Reading Time: <\/span> <span class=\"rt-time\"> &lt; 1<\/span> <span class=\"rt-label rt-postfix\">minute<\/span><\/span><p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-medium wp-image-45996\" src=\"https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/05\/wedding-china-300x206.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"206\" srcset=\"https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/05\/wedding-china-300x206.jpg 300w, https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/05\/wedding-china.jpg 340w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/p>\n<p>China\u2019s population dropped by 2 million people in 2023 in the second straight annual drop as births fell and deaths jumped after the lifting of COVID-19 restrictions, the government said Wednesday.\u00a0 <a href=\"https:\/\/www.msn.com\/en-gb\/money\/other\/china-s-population-dropped-for-a-second-straight-year-as-deaths-jumped-after-covid-lockdowns-ended\/ar-AA1n64FA?ocid=msedgntp&amp;pc=LCTS&amp;cvid=89259e7e17b34b5491ab65bc84fe262c&amp;ei=108\">Read More<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p><span class=\"span-reading-time rt-reading-time\" style=\"display: block;\"><span class=\"rt-label rt-prefix\">Reading Time: <\/span> <span class=\"rt-time\"> &lt; 1<\/span> <span class=\"rt-label rt-postfix\">minute<\/span><\/span>China\u2019s population dropped by 2 million people in 2023 in the second straight annual drop as births fell and deaths jumped after&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":50196,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[154],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-55852","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-health"},"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/09\/china-population2.jpeg","amp_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/55852","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=55852"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/55852\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":55853,"href":"https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/55852\/revisions\/55853"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/50196"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=55852"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=55852"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=55852"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}