China's birthrate drops despite allowing more than one child
The birthrate in China dropped last year despite the removal of its one-child policy, allowing couples to have two children. China registered 1.72 crore births in 2017 as compared to 1.79 crore births in 2016, the National Bureau of Statistics of China said. China had relaxed the one-child policy in 2015 to reverse the trend of its ageing population.