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HONG KONG — China said Tuesday that its population had declined for the first time in decades, a historic shift with profound implications for the world’s second-largest economy. Officials from the National Bureau of Statistics said mainland China had 1.41175 billion people at the end of 2022, compared with 1.41260 billion a year earlier, a decrease of 850,000. There were a total of 9.56 million births — a record low birth rate of 6.77 per thousand — and 10.41 million deaths. The announcement was part of a larger release of economic data for 2022, a year when President Xi Jinping’s...
