Beijing : Another important news has emerged amid reports of atrocities against Uighur Muslims living in China's Xinjiang province. Western Xinjiang province has recorded a sharp decline in birth rates between 2017 and 2019. This decline attracts attention because it is the biggest decline in birth rates in any sector in recent history.

A report claims that the birth rate in China's Muslim-majority areas has fallen to 48.74 per cent. According to a new report by the Australian Strategy Policy Institute, the birth rate in areas where Uighurs, Kazakhs and other large Muslim ethnic minorities live has declined by 48.74 per cent. The report is based on nearly a decade of chinese government data.

The birth rate in the country's largest minority region has also dropped by 43.7 per cent between 2017 and 2018 and only 1 lakh 60 thousand children were born this year. It has also surpassed the decline in birth rates during the Syrian civil war, genocide in Rwanda and Colombia. China's Foreign Ministry and the Xinjiang government are yet to respond. Nathan Rasser, a researcher at SPI and co-author of the report, said the decline in birth rates has been unprecedented in 71 years since the United Nations began collecting global birth data.

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