🇨🇳 China briefing

Why it matters, neighbors, workers versus retirees. Generate a draft, write it yourself, then expand or edit any paragraph.

A memo you can forward: why fertility matters, how this country compares with its neighbors, and how many working-age people versus retirees the pyramid already implies. Tick sections, park each chart next to the paragraph it belongs with, then generate — or start from blank headings and write it yourself. After that, every heading and paragraph is editable, and Expand / Tighten / Ask AI can rewrite one section at a time.

China’s fertility collapse is recent, large, and already visible in births. The one-child cohorts are now the parents.

Sections
Charts — order and placement

Children per woman, China and neighbors

children per woman
TFR

Total fertility rate, China

children per woman

Population share by religion

% of population

Age pyramid, China

2025 · male (left) / female (right)

people
World Bank population by age and sex. Open full pyramidbirthrate.io

Working-age and retirees, China

millions of people
Working age (15–64)Age 65+

Net migration, China

people

Foreign-born stock by origin, China

people

China-born living abroad

people

Health expenditure, China

% of GDP

Age-dependency ratio, China

%

Share aged 65+, China

%

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This briefing will cover

  • National TFR is well below 1.5 in compiled recent years; provincial maps are estimates, not an NBS TFR table.
  • Aging speed, not just level, is the briefing point.

Working-age counts are modeled from today’s pyramid. 2040 taxpayers are mostly already born; TFR shows up around 2060.