(A) India
(B) Pakistan
(C) China
(D) United Kingdom
Correct Option is: C
In 2023, China’s population declined for a second year in a row due to a record low birth rate and a wave of Covid-19 fatalities that followed the lifting of stringent lockdowns. This decline will have a significant long-term impact on the country’s prospects for economic progress. According to the National Bureau of Statistics, China’s population fell by 2.08 million, or 0.15 percent, to 1.409 billion in 2023. That was much more than the 850,000 population decrease in 2022—the first since 1961, during the Great Famine of the Mao Zedong regime.