China announces slowest population growth in decades
AFP, BEIJING
China’s population has grown at its slowest pace in decades, reaching 1.41 billion, census results showed yesterday, highlighting fears of a looming crisis over an aging society.
The growth of 5.4 percent over the past decade was the slowest since the 1960s and comes alongside a sharp drop in the number of working-age people.
China remains the world’s most populous nation, but India is catching up with about 1.38 billion people and its youthful population is expected to soon overtake China.
Chinese National Bureau of Statistics Director Ning Jizhe speaks at a news conference at the State Council Information Office in Beijing yesterday.
Weekly storage of natural gas in U.S. up 3.2 pct: EIA
Xinhua
07 May 2021, 04:44 GMT+10
HOUSTON, May 6 (Xinhua) Working gas storage in the contiguous United States was 1,958 billion cubic feet (about 55.44 billion cubic meters) in the week ending April 30, a net increase of 60 billion cubic feet, or 3.2 percent, from the previous week, the U.S. Energy Information Administration (EIA) said Thursday in a report. The total working gas storage decreased by 15.0 percent from this time last year, or down 3.0 percent below the five-year average, according to the EIA s Weekly Natural Gas Storage Report. The storage of working gas usually turns to decrease in November and continues to drop in April when heating season ends in the country, according to previous data.
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by Tyler Durden
Thursday, Apr 29, 2021 - 09:10 PM
Earlier this week, we highlighted an interesting article in the FT this according to which China’s population was set to decline for the first time since the 1950s when the national census data is released soon. However, in response to the report which prompted widespread speculation over implications of this demographic inflection point, the Chinese National Bureau of Statistics (NBS) best known for faking every possible piece of data, released a statement this morning saying that the population continued to grow in 2020 ahead of the official release. Watch for 2016-19 revisions though.
2021-04-22 18:36:09 GMT2021-04-23 02:36:09(Beijing Time) Xinhua English
HOUSTON, April 22 (Xinhua) Working gas storage in the contiguous United States was 1,883 billion cubic feet (about 53.32 billion cubic meters) in the week ending April 16, a net increase of 38 billion cubic feet, or 2.1 percent, from the previous week, the U.S. Energy Information Administration (EIA) said Thursday in a report.
The total working gas storage decreased by 11.8 percent from this time last year, or up 0.6 percent below the five-year average, according to the EIA s Weekly Natural Gas Storage Report.
The storage of working gas usually turns to decrease in November and continues to drop in April when heating season ends in the country, according to previous data.