January 19, 2023 at 2:52 PM

This boggled my mind:

There are 5 million fewer females aged 15-49 in China today than in 2020.

In just 3 years, 5 million people… disappeared.

Of course, they didn’t really disappear, some just aged.

But it’s such a large number that my mind had trouble processing it.

https://www.economist.com/graphic-detail/2022/01/19/chinas-birth-rate-continues-to-fall