China’s birth rate has plummeted as the number of registered newborns crashed by 15% in 2020. Michael Robinson, SPUC Director of Communications, said: “China’s inhumane population control programme, designed to cull and manipulate the Chinese people, continues to wreak social havoc. While the news of the falling birth rate is worrying, the death toll of unborn babies and the damage inflicted on Chinese women by forced abortion are atrocities that have wreaked incalculable human havoc.”
Data released by China’s Security Ministry earlier this week has revealed there was just over 10.04 million registered births in the country during 2020, compared to 11.79 million in 2019.
The sinking birth rate is now at its lowest point in seven decades and has sparked panic across China with some calling it a "demographic cliff fall".
The release of the population data has generated heated discussions across the country, with some labelling it "the biggest crisis the Chinese nation is facing".
One social media user in China highlighted that the 2020 birth rate was "lower than the number of people taking the college entrance examination".
China’s barbaric social experiment
China’s notorious one-child policy was ushered in during the 1970s. Condemned by the global pro-life movement as "barbaric" and "inhumane", the policy used forced abortion and sterilisation to dramatically reduce population growth, at a horrific cost to women.
The one-child policy was reversed five years ago following concerns over the country's ageing population and diminishing workforce. Lifting this ban led Chinese authorities to "allow" women to have two children.
Despite the reversal of this policy, decades of it in action have contributed to the country having one of the worst gender imbalances in the world. It is estimated that there could now be 55 million excess males living in China.
SPUC’s Michael Robinson said: "China’s barbaric social experiment designed to manipulate its human population has led to some of the greatest human atrocities on the globe.
"The appalling consequences of China’s decades long population control policies, such as an ageing population, a shrinking workforce and a chronic gender imbalance are now apparent more than ever.
"Whether the country can ever recover from the untold social damage population control policies have inflicted remain to be seen. But we do know that nothing will bring back the millions of unborn Chinese babies forcibly torn from their mother’s womb, babies who might now be contributing to China’s economy."