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SeaJ@lemm.ee to World News@lemmy.ml · 2 years ago

China has a birth-rate problem. It's also the 2nd-least affordable country in the world to raise a child, says a Beijing think tank.

www.businessinsider.com

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China has a birth-rate problem. It's also the 2nd-least affordable country in the world to raise a child, says a Beijing think tank.

www.businessinsider.com

SeaJ@lemm.ee to World News@lemmy.ml · 2 years ago
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China is one of the most unaffordable places in the world to raise a child, ranking higher than the US and Japan, per Yuwa Population Research.
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    Median would definitely give a more realistic picture considering how bad wealth inequality is in China.

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      It’s really tragic the progress they’re making. No wonder they hate their government so much.

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        The Gini coefficient is the one that measures income inequality. China’s is roughly where the US is at in that measure which is to say extremely unequal at around 47:

        https://web.archive.org/web/20240211041900/https://www.economist.com/finance-and-economics/2021/10/02/just-how-dickensian-is-china

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