China is one of the most unaffordable places in the world to raise a child, ranking higher than the US and Japan, per Yuwa Population Research.
  • China is one of the world’s most unaffordable places to raise a child, a Beijing think tank says.
  • The cost of raising a child compared to GDP per capita is 6.3 times in China, but 4.11 in the US, it said.
  • The cost of raising a child is sinking China’s already falling birth rate, the researchers said.
  • Scubus@sh.itjust.works
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    9 months ago

    I think I know how to reverse the trend. Make the world a not shit place, make it so the world isn’t literally ending around us, and provide financial security so people feel safe raising children.

    That being said, dunno why we would actually want more people until we head to space.