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This is a slowdown from 2.5 per cent annually in the preceding decade
China has been gradually reforming its stringent birth policy that for decades limited most families to only having a single child
Demographers predict that by latter half of the century, global population will enter a sustained decline for the first time.
Beijing's once-in-a-decade census showed there were 1.412 billion people in China last year.
NCT of Delhi has the highest population density of 11,320 people per square km, while Arunachal Pradesh has the lowest of 17 per sq km
Yearly spending on caring for the elderly is expected to reach $2.5 billion - five times the cost in 2015 - the study said