China to have 1.45 bn people by 2030 due to 2-child policy

October 30, 2015 22:06

China today said about 90 million couples will qualify to have a second child after it scrapped its controversial decades-old one-child policy, raising the number of people in the world's most populous nation to 1.45

billion by 2030.

"It is expected that after the adjustment, the number of births will increase, with more than 20 million births expected in a peak year," said Wang Pei'an, deputy head of the National Health and Family Planning Commission.

In a major change to family-planning legislation, the ruling Communist Party of China (CPC) yesterday announced it was abolishing the controversial three-decades-old one-child policy and permitting all couples to have a second child.

About 90 million couples will qualify to have a second child after the policy is enacted, Wang said, adding that around 60 per cent of the qualified women were 35 years old or older.

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