SHANGHAI (Reuters) -- The cost of raising a child in China stands at nearly seven times its per capita GDP, far more than the United States and Japan, highlighting the challenges facing Chinese policymakers as they try to tackle rapidly declining birth rates, new research showed.
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China's child-rearing costs far outstrip U.S. and Japan: research
Only South Korea ranked higher among the 13 countries included in the study
A primary school in Wuhan, China. The average cost of raising a child to the age of 18 in China in 2019 stood at 485,000 yuan ($76,629) for a first child, 6.9 times country's per capita GDP that year. © Reuters
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