China’s fertility rate is estimated to have dropped to a record low of 1.09 in 2022, the National Business Daily said on Tuesday, a figure likely to rattle authorities as they try to boost the country’s declining number of new births.

  • ijeff@lemdro.id
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    1 year ago

    I’m thinking more in terms of the terminology used rather than the methodology.

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      1 year ago

      A lot of technical terminology sounds weird to people outside the field.

      “Fertility rate” is standard in demography.