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China's condom boom

Geoff Riley

28th May 2017

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Birth rates tend to decline as the size of a country's middle-class grows and China is no exception according to recent figures. Despite the lifting of the one-child policy in 2015, the number of births in China in 2016 fell a long way short of government projections. According to Breaking Views - "In 2016, births increased by 7.9 percent, adding 1.3 million, far short of the government’s prediction of an additional 3 million per year." According to the FT, China’s condom market will almost triple in value to $5bn by 2024 from 2015.

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Geoff Riley

Geoff Riley FRSA has been teaching Economics for nearly forty years. He has over twenty years experience as Head of Economics at leading schools. He writes extensively and is a contributor and presenter on CPD and Revision conferences in the UK and overseas.

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