China’s population is shrinking. The impact will be felt around the world

China may be one step closer to losing its place as the world’s most populous country to Indiaafter its population shrank for the first time since the 1960s. The country’s population fell in 2022 to 1.411 billion, down some 850,000 people from the previous year, China’s National Bureau of Statistics (NBS) announced during a Tuesday briefing on annual data.The last time China’s population