BEIJING (BLOOMBERG) - China's birth rate dropped to the lowest level since at least 1949 last year and the labour force continued to shrink, in the latest sign of slowing growth prospects for the world's second-largest economy.
The number of births per 1,000 people declined to 10.48, the lowest level on record according to National Bureau of Statistics data going back to when the Communist Party took power.
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