China population: with 20 million fewer people projected by 2035, will the retirement age have to be raised?
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China’s population is expected to plunge by 20 million to 1.39 billion by 2035, according to the Economist Intelligence Unit (EIU), after it suffered a second consecutive annual decline in 2023.