Unaffordable house price is the best form of birth control Works everywhere

Even though they lift the ban for “2 child policy” I think the main reason why people don’t want to have a child because it’s so damn expensive to raise one.

"The 1-child policy worked so well that they replaced it with a 2-child policy." - The level of sarcasm by DW.

China: People don't want kids, our birthrate is falling. Japan: _That's cute_

if the census published by the ccp is this bad, then the reality is far worse

Imagine having a second child and admit to national tv that you regret it lol

Everybody Gangsta until they get old.

This is happening not only in China. Most developed countries are facing this same issue. Bottom line is... The excruciating cost of living is why the people choose not to start a big family or not start at all.. Simply ask any Singaporeans. They know best.

I'm not sure but I believe this is happening everywhere. I live in Canada and life is getting increasingly unaffordable. Who can afford to have children these days?

This phenomenon is present everywhere. My father has 8 siblings whereas my mother has 6 but i only have a little sister. My father always says that today raising 2 kids is equivalent to raising 10 kids 50 years ago.

I regret the decision of having the 2nd child. I bet the kid love hearing that when they grow up.

1:45 imagine being that second kid and finding this video 10 years later to hear your mom regrets having you......Ooof

As countries become wealthier their birthrates decline. Just the way it is.

People are already burdened being an only child tasked with taking care of elderly parents. There’s no money for more kids.🤔

Important topic missing: 10-20% more men than women in marriage age.

This is good news. We need this kinda situation in India.

This is happening almost in every country in the world, its a combination of different factors

honestly the planet could use a few billion less people, and people not wanting children should not be a bad thing.

The one-child policy was in effect 1980-2015. Those children are 6-41 today.

It is very difficult to be a parent in China. There’s just so much pressure. More,more,more...That’s the main reason why there are so many divorces!

I don't know about this but it seems to me that the more educated the population the fewer children they have. Japan, Korea, Singapore are suffering the same problem and their education system is top-notch. There are predictions that the human population gonna decrease later this century and it's a good thing.

Its China, they will work something out.

1:45 I feel so sorry for her second child.

I am Chinese. My child is 12 years old and I don’t want to have a second child. It is easy to feed the child, but it is not easy for him to live a good life in the future. The main reason is that the housing price is too high, and the second is that the pressure of education competition is too great and the cost is too much

Sadly, China seemed getting old before being rich，but fortunately well-educated population increases.

Old people still hold top power while youngers strugle to get better job.

😆 imagine saying you regret having your child on an international channel. Poor kid

In today's financial world a child is a liability not a blessing. The price of economic success is declining population. RIP🙏⚰

Actually, one-child polocy is strictly executed in relatively developed area. I am the only child of my family, and my classmates are the same. But when I attended university and met new classmates from different areas of China, many of them have several siblings, especially from under-developed area.

I hope that second kid never gets to see this piece.

Raising a child is a luxury, an expensive one. This is not the 50s or 60s anymore. Sooner or later robots will do the work for us

The government policy of one child killed so many baby girls. God will judge

Then in a few years.. India will be the most populated country in the world.

In Beijing, a family that want to buy a house need to make 2 generation loans.

It's the BBC smoggy grey filter again

I think India should seriously consider this policy.

The Western media serious lacks any basic understanding of China. 1) the legitimacy of the CPC is not solely reliant on the economic growth. It's reliant on the idea that the CPC representing the Chineseness of the Nation. A guardian against the chaotic western system. Like it or not, this is how most Chinese sees it. This view has especially been vindicated by the pandemic and the rise of populism in the West. 2) Media needs to understand the difference between Macro and Micro trends, every country has a boomer generation. China's boomer generation is around 10 years later than that of the West. As this generation passes on, The population metrics will stabilize. 3) Aging population is offset by rising productivity. There is still massive room for automation to grow in China. As China move up the economic value chain. It will require a smaller workforce to do more. This is what every developed nation went through. 4) Chinese saving rate is very high. Most elderly are taken care of by their savings and help from family members. This traditional view of retirement is different from the West, so it's understandable that they don't get it.

There isn't enough fresh water for China to continue to have that large of a population.

Let’s stop talking about this as if it’s a bad thing.

As nations develop they tend to have fewer children.

Another round of "why China must finally fail"... - this is what the Western audience demands, and DW delivers reliably.

Well so many humans worldwide. Its okay to decrease.

Living in US and taking classes and working with many Chinese immigrants, I have noticed that they don't want to have more than one child (as specially young ones). China should involve well organized social security program , so that people can chill a little ! Talking to many of my friends I have noticed that whole situation with taking care of elders , studying and working 24/7 have been very damaging for mental health

Time for AI & robot workers in all sectors. Welcome to world of AI. (Soon after this statistics, just the trial movie coming soon)

It’s funny that we can openly talk about the Far East demographic shift but it’s absolutely taboo to talk about the demographic winter affecting the European people, we are set to become minorities in our own homelands by 2050. It’s awful, sometimes I walk through the city centre and I don’t even see another indigenous European. And on top of that as we shrink we are bombarded with white privileged and critical race theory, I hate to think what the future will bring.

It’s mostly because of the rising real estate price. Major cities in China have higher price per square footage housing compared to major North American cities while average income is lower. There literally is not enough “room” for new babies. Many people in their 30s are still living with their parents.

good to hear.

Good! Population increase does not need to be maintained, especially not there. For a state-controlled capitalism (a.k.a. fascism), a decline in population increase is just what the doctor ordered.

Currently women in China retire at 55 and I expect this will be increased to 60 and possibly 65 in due course.

Who knew ruling people with a iron fist would hurt its people.

Do you know how absurd it sounds to worry about population decline in a country of 1.4 billion people?

5:55 look at his eyes nicely going left and right reading the script

aging population? lol, ever seen those old people dancing in the parks? 60 is the new 40 over there.

The average age of Chinese citizens is 38 years old, and 18% of Chinese citizens are below 14 years old. The question is what the real situation in our Europe?

Maybe they should stick with the one child policy until they're not causing a large animal species to go extinct every year.

So let me get this right, you get to demand how I raise my child, how it grows up, and then demand how they live!? Pass.

Wonder what would 2nd child think when they grow up an see this, mom regrets my birth??? 😂

Bummer that their draconian policy backfired on them. I’m sure all those abandoned and aborted baby girls have sympathy for them

china,china,china!!! can you stop talking about China! every country has this problem and this is nothing special!!!

Hello Polymatter! Hope Part 4 comes soon! :)

Women don't want to have children they can't support financially. Let's remember that at one point boys were the preference. Most of those boys are now adult men that have hard time finding partners since girls were unwanted and you can only have one child. 2015 or 2016 was okay to have more children

This is happening in Korea Japan Russia Germany since a while And the first 3 dont even allow immigrants in or people dont go there

'The aging process has quickened' What?? I thought this was a joke

Well good grief, what did you think would happen when you forced people to stop at 1 child? That the elderly would politely die at 65 on the dot?

"It worked so well that in 2015 it was replaced with the 2 child limit" Yet how many crimes against human rights were made before that...

In the past, the Chinese live with their extended families which eases the financial and labor burdens of having kids. Now that it's westernizing and people are living separate from their parents, it's more stressful to raise kids.

They already mentioned the solution; more automation and artificial intelligence. The rest of the world will have to bear that in mind as well .

My parents had 10 children.😳

This is an issue in most advanced and western countries aswell. That is because in our days you need to raise a kid, provide it with good education and this means childern depend on you up to ages 26-27-28 and more. Also the job market is so competitive these days it is hard to find a job even if you have good skills. On top of that the cost of HOUSING, is crazy. Unless governments are able to provide good education, good healthcare and give solutions to the housing not many people are going to start a family.

If there are adequate incentives to have 2 children, people will move towards that path. Just because a 1-child policy becomes a 2-child policy, doesn't mean people will flock to having 2 children. If a developed nation wants couples to have 2 children in a society that essentially requires both parents to work, incentives must be placed to lift some of the burden off. This could be increasing tax breaks for having more children, subsidized childcare, or creating more daycare spots (many parents cannot find daycare for their kids). This could also include government run daycares and schools in factory cities, seeing how a huge number of children are abandoned in their home town while their parents go to the city to work. No family, no bond....these children grow up to be emotionless zombies with no empathy for anyone. It comes to no surprise how the next generation does not want children, when they were never loved.

Don't worry... Need workers? Call India... We have billion people of workforce

I just looked up the population of China, and the current estimate is 1,444,100,264. I do not think that China is going to run out of people anytime in the foreseeable future.

Good, it means less pollution

Having a child living under a dictatorial regime rule without liberty for the rest of his/her life is not something every parent want for their children. 🙄🙄

Well i am 29 years old, single and without children. By the way I'm Mexican

This happens in every developed country. In cities, children are a cost center-everything has to be paid for. On farms, children are a revenue center-cheap labor.

Thanks to Mao and his "ingenious" plan

It's happening here in the UK also, alot of smaller shops have signs saying "no more than 2 children at a time ".. who are they to tell us what to do!

Money is scarce and time is precious, two things children will take a lot of.

they needed a few extra weeks to cook the books

Topic: China's Demographics My Brain: Seeing the background of the expert... It's certain that DW uses MS Teams

If only there was some way for China to lower its numbers of elderly people….

Even though the growing rate is historical low, but it is still higher than most European countries....a big problem for China

Relax everyone. China will be fine.

The young will later change their minds, as new tech & thinking come in & choose to live in countryside wirh more children. Life is not only about richer in assets.

The number of senior population rise only shows a good sign, the life there is more promising..

*They Calling it a big set back but tell me can you sustain such a huge growth if it doesn't fall ? Imagine 2 or 2.5 Billion Chinese and 2.5 or 3 billion Indians can earth sustain such pressure? No if humans doesn't stop it nature will by bringing calamities and disease. There is limit to everything*

Lucky China !! Hope India can get there someday...Too many people to provide a decent standard of living !!

Isn't slowing population growth a good thing when the world is running out of resources?

China could improve demographics by facilitating immigration. Right now, it's impossible: citizenship is impossible, you can't get a national ID card (which makes daily life difficult), you're at the mercy of whoever renews your visa, you can only work for one employer, you can't own a company, racism is getting worse, getting a 75 year lease on real estate is expensive af and a pain in the butt to get as a foreigner (you can only have 1 property max too), you have a lot less rights than a citizen, and if you're a foreigner and give birth to a child in China he/she doesn't get citizenship either. Everyone I know who tried settling in China has either left or plans to leave in the next year or so. China could have foreign younger people working there in the long term, but they're doing everything to make them want to leave. Anything longer than a foreign work assignment is extremely problematic, especially when it comes to starting or maintaining a family.

Selling anxiety and selective blindness again, 0:33, did you just omit 0-14 growth? It's + 1.35%.

Good, the one/two child policies were the greatest thing China has ever done

The narrator's voice sounded like my English listening test in high school lol

Why interview someone in Taipei, Taiwan about China DW... Taiwan is a democratic independent sovereign state separate from China.

Report utterly misses the main point, that we need populations to decline, in China and especially in the developed world. Our impact on the environment is too much - pollution, climate change, etc.

In 2025, 60% of China's population will be retirement age. In the US, 16% of the population will be of retirement age. This is an enormous difference and serious problem

I don't think that China has to worry about running out of people. The fewer children that a person has, the fewer responsibilities that that person has. Whatever money that that person earns can be spent on the few children that are born. It's a sensible policy for anyone to follow.

They are force sterilizing people in the camps, I think that also has an impact.

One reality is that it does not have to do with the cost of raising children, in all countries there is an issue and it is education, the more years a person studies, the less likely they are to have fewer children

I don’t think is a problem infact is a blessing in disguise as the market place require less and less work force with the tremendous advancement in automation and AI .