World historic transition: China is on brink of reporting first population decline since Mao’s Great Leap Forward Famine of the late 1950s.
World historic transition: China is on brink of reporting first population decline since Mao’s Great Leap Forward Famine of the late 1950s. Population just < 1.4 billion reported for 2019. Time to put a big notch in the collective timeline of humanity. https://t.co/uXL77bXizh pic.twitter.com/IBC0SUXJwS — Adam Tooze (@adam_tooze) April 28, 2021