What does negative population growth mean?

1. Fertility issues

The current housing prices and commodity prices continue to rise, which has brought a lot of pressure to today's young people. Due to the feudal ideology of patriarchy in the 1970s and 1980s, there are many boys in this era. In many rural areas, boys cannot find wives.

2. Population Aging

Today’s social population is also aging. The fundamental reason is that young people are unwilling to have children. Therefore, young people are increasingly The labor force is getting smaller and smaller, which has brought a series of problems to society. As the elderly population continues to increase, we will face great problems in terms of medical and health services and the care of the elderly. Expenditures for large health care institutions will also increase day by day.

3. Reduction of labor force

As the aging of the population intensifies, the number of our country’s labor force is also decreasing, which has had an adverse impact on the scale of production in all aspects of our country. Industry needs labor, and the labor force is shrinking day by day.

4. Insufficient national defense strength

Due to the continuous shrinkage of the labor force, the number of conscripts has also continued to decrease, thus the number of our country’s soldiers has also continued to decrease. This has made our country Military strength is also declining. This is also an urgent problem that requires timely thinking of countermeasures to solve the current situation of our country's national defense.