人口定時炸彈運轉,中國工人數量下降

Beijing (AFP) - China'sworking-age population continued to fall in 2014, the government said onTuesday, as Beijingstruggles to address a spiralling demographic challenge made worse by its one-child policy.

北京（法新社）——2014年中國的工齡人口數量繼續下滑，政府週二說，加上一胎化的不利影響，中國正掙扎於解決這個人口挑戰。

Mainland China's total population stood at 1.37billion at the end of 2014, according to the National Bureau of Statistics, an increase of 7.1 million over the end of 2013. It remains the world's largest,although Indiahas been catching up in recent years.

2014年底中國大陸人口爲13.7億人，這是國家統計局的數據，在2013年的基礎上增加了710萬。儘管印度最近幾年在窮追不捨，但是中國依然是世界第一人口大國。

The working-age population -- which China definesas those between the ages of 16 and 59 -- dropped to 915.8 million last year,the NBS said, down 3.7 million from the end of 2013.

中國將工齡人口定義爲16到59歲之間的人口，去年該部分人口下降到9.158億，比2013年下降了370萬。

The population aged 60 and over, by contrast, rose by more than 10 million to 212.4 million, or 15.5 percent of thetotal population.

而60歲或者以上的人口則增長了1000多萬人，達到2.124億人，或者說總人口的15.5%。

Projections show that one in four of the population -- or 350 million Chinese -- will be aged 60 or older by 2030,compared with just five percent as late as 1982.

據估計，四分之一人口或者說3.5億中國人在2030年時將達到60歲或者更老，而在1982年時這部分人口只佔5%。