BEIJING—China’s population grew last year, the regime’s statistics bureau said on April 29 in an apparent bid to quash reports that it had fallen, but authorities stopped short of saying from which year numbers had grown.
On April 27, the Financial Times newspaper said China was set to report that its population fell last year from 2019 to below 1.4 billion, in the first decrease in five decades, citing people familiar with the matter.
