Demographics: China’s fertility rate drops to 0.93

Jan 19, 2026

Over the longer term, China’s population is collapsing from 1.4 billion perhaps to 600 million or lower.

(1) Jesús Fernández-Villaverde on X: “I have been posting repeatedly on X about the extraordinarily fast collapse of births across the planet: in rich and poor countries, in fast-growing and slow-growing economies, in religious and secular societies, under right-wing and left-wing governments, with high taxes and https://t.co/bTWWwFyYBX” / X

I have been posting repeatedly on X about the extraordinarily fast collapse of births across the planet: in rich and poor countries, in fast-growing and slow-growing economies, in religious and secular societies, under right-wing and left-wing governments, with high taxes and… pic.twitter.com/bTWWwFyYBX
— Jesús Fernández-Villaverde (@JesusFerna7026) January 19, 2026