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As Chinese authorities report that the country's population shrank last year for the first time in more than six decades, residents of Beijing and Shanghai give their views. Some see population decline as "inevitable" at a time when young people are increasingly choosing not to have children. The Chinese population stood at around 1,411,750,000 at the end of 2022, Beijing's National Bureau of Statistics (NBS) reported, a decrease of 850,000 from the end of the previous year.
In tonight's edition: As a jailed Egytian breaks his 7-month long hunger strike, Egypt's human rights record comes into the spotlight, as the COP27 climate summit continues. Senegal recently imposed a price cap on various goods from food to rent, as inflation continues to bite in the country. And the world has officially surpassed 8 billion inhabitants. As the global population grows, the majority of that growth is projected to come from 5 countries on the African continent.
The UN says we're reaching eight billion in record time due to progress in public health, nutrition and medicine which have helped increase life expectancy. At the same time, we have a record number of women in the workforce, at university, which is also having an impact on demographic growth as birthrates drop in developed nations. Arjan Djonca, a specialist in demography at the London School of Economics tells us more about demographic trends.
Euronews speaks to United Nations Population Fund Executive Director, Natalia Kanem, and European Commission Vice-President for Democracy and Demography, Dubravka Šuica, to discuss the opportunities and challenges of 8 billion people on earth.
No World War Three this week no nuclear winter but Nato got a scare. How close did Nato come to an escalation with Russia? A Russian-made missile landing on a Polish farming village Tuesday, killing two agricultural workers. The Polish president found that initial evidence pointed to Ukranian anti-air defence a claim backed by NATO allies but initially denied by a Ukranian president who stated "I have no doubt that this is not our missile."
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