China's neighbor Japan is suffering from the plight of having fewer children. In 1999, Japan's total fertility rate fell to 1.57%, known as the 1.57 crisis. In 2006, this figure dropped to 1.04. Japanese media exclaimed that fewer children has reached the point of endangering the rise and fall of the country. At the same time, in China, which has a large population, the problem of fewer children is emerging day by day. According to the data of the 2010 national census, people aged 0 to 16 account for 16.60% of the total population, down 6.2 percentage points from 2000, and the total fertility rate is about 1.1%. Demographers exclaim that China has entered the ranks of countries with the lowest fertility rate and severe childlessness.
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Fewer children has become a social problem perplexing the economic development of our country.