Foreigners who have been living in Shanghai for years are also leaving. The latest population data released by the Shanghai Statistics Bureau in 2023 shows that the population of Shanghai in 2022 was 24.76 million, a decrease of about 135,400 compared to 24.89 million in 2021. This is the first time that China’s financial center Shanghai has experienced a population decline in five years. In 2022, the birth rate in Shanghai was 4.4‰, a decrease of 0.3‰ from 4.7‰ in 2021, and the birth rate was lower than t
