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Image copyright Getty Images Image caption China relaxed its one-child policy in 2015 to combat an ageing population

China’s population will peak in 2029 at 1.44 billion before beginning a period of “unstoppable” decline, a government report says.

The China Academy of Social Sciences (CASS) study says the country must implement policies to handle a smaller workforce and an older population.

Both changes combined could cause “very unfavourable social and economic consequences”, the report says.

Latest UN estimates say China has a population of 1.41 billion.

In 2015 the world’s most populous country ended its one-child policy in a bid to tackle the problems.

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The study appears in CASS’s Green Book of Population and Labour.

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