• 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.
    • Malte@feddit.de
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      9 months ago

      On the other side: if most alternatives are raging alcoholics it might give the chinese men an edge.

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        9 months ago

        My gut, admittedly influenced by national and ethnic stereotypes, also says that, generally speaking, Russian women prefer the alcoholic canon fodder over a (typically) short Chinese guy.