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Welcome back to a numbers game with Ryan Gurdowski. Thank you guys for being here again.

We had a special announcement about the lawsuit for my nonprofit, the 1776 Project Foundation,

so I didn't get a chance to talk to you on the Wednesday episode about some data.

There's so much that came out over the week. It's no joke. I want't get a chance to talk to you on the Wednesday episode about some data. There's so much that came out over the week. It's no joke. I want to get right into it. First of all, let's talk about

China. As many of you've heard, because you're interested in the news, China released their

2025 birth data, and the numbers were truly astonishing.

So China's fertility rate dropped substantially.

It's down to 0.93 children per woman.

Yeah, 0.93.

People in China are having less than one child per couple.

Those of you of a particular age may remember

that going back in 1979, the Chinese Communist Party was so aware of an overpopulation

that they limited the amount of children a couple could have to one child. It was the one child

policy. As a result, a lot of families were only you know, only trying to have boys. There was a spike

in international adoptions for girls, Chinese girls, and there was a huge spike in actually abortions.

From 1979 until 2016, China aborted 336 million children, predominantly girls, which, I mean, is like the population of the United States.

They aborted the population of the United States over the course of those 40 years.

Once again, astounding.

But in 2016, China realized that they were having a declining fertility rate.

It was pretty substantial, actual, a declining fertility rate.

So they lifted that policy, allowing couples to have two children.

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