As many as 20,000 kindergartens will be closed in two years due to ``sudden decline'' in birth rate in China

"As China's birth rate declines, the number of kindergartens that have closed in the past two years has exceeded 20,000," Chinese economic media outlet Daiichi Caijing reported on the 26th.
According to statistics from the Chinese Ministry of Education cited by this media, the number of kindergartens in China (as of the end of last year) has increased to 20,410 compared to two years ago.
The total number of locations decreased to 274,400. The number of kindergartens in the year before last decreased by 5,610 (1.9%) from the previous year, marking the first time since 2008 that the number of kindergartens had declined. Last year, we suspended operations.
The number of kindergartens that have been closed has increased to 14,800. This is believed to be the result of a sharp decline in the number of kindergarten students due to a decline in the birth rate.
Due to the implementation of China's "two-child" policy, the total number of children born in 2016 and 2017 exceeded 17 million.
Especially in 2016, the number reached 18.83 million. However, as the effectiveness of the "two-child" policy declined, the number of children born decreased to 15.32 million in 2018, and continued to 14.65 million in 2019.
The number of people continues to decline to 12 million in 2020. The number of kindergarten closures is expected to continue to increase. The birth population will decrease by 10.62 million people in 2021 and 9.56 million people in 2022.
・This is because the number of people continues to rise rapidly to 9.02 million in 2023. As a result, while some kindergartens will be transformed into educational centers for the elderly, many elementary, middle and high schools are expected to close.