Beijing-based YuWa Population Research Institute said in a report published on Tuesday that the average cost of raising a child to the age of 18 in China in 2019 stood at 485,000 yuan ($76,629) for a first child, 6.9 times China's per capita GDP that year.

The World Bank in February estimated that globally a 7-month absence from schools due to COVID-related closures would increase the share of students in "learning poverty" website to around 70% unless swift action was taken.

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On Weibo, another user writing under the name Lawyer Zhang, said that action needed to be taken to address the disproportionate burden faced by women, who are expected to give birth and raise children as part of their natural "motherhood".

As a result, millions of children and youth will be forced to continue learning remotely, compounding problems already evident after two years of COVID-19 related closures, including high dropout rates among teenagers, said Sonia Khush, Ukraine country director for Save the Children.

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Child rearing costs are even higher in China's major cities, reaching more than 1 million yuan in Shanghai and 969,000 yuan in Beijing.

Birth rates in the two cities are even lower than the national average.

"If kids don't get educated ... that is going to have a permanent lasting legacy, and the recovery will be longer, harder and more expensive," said Arup Banerji, World Bank regional country director for eastern Europe.

Across Ukraine, authorities are building bomb shelters and repairing thousands of buildings damaged in shelling by Russian forces before the country's nearly 6 million school-aged children return to school in September - online or in person.

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Experts warn China's ageing population will put huge pressure on its health and social security system, while a dwindling workforce could also severely limit growth for the world's second largest economy in the coming decades.

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It was bombed completely - and it can never be restored," she said, during a visit to Illia's new school in Irpin, near Kyiv, where workers are replacing windows blown out during a Russian artillery attack before school starts on Sept. "My son's school is not there anymore.

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A Postal Service representative said that customers can still use Priority Mail Express and Priority Mail services with a one- to three-day standard to ship letters, larger envelopes or packages within the contiguous United States.

Although new policies allow families to have as many as three children, China's birth rate dropped to 7.52 births per 1,000 people in 2021, the lowest since the National Bureau of Statistics began recording the data in 1949.

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China would need to spend at least 5% of its annual GDP to create incentives for couples to have more children, including education subsidies, preferential mortgage rates, tax breaks, equal paternity and maternity leave, as well as the construction of more childcare centres, it added.

SHANGHAI, Feb 23 (Reuters) - The cost of raising a child in China stands at nearly seven times its per capita GDP, far more than in the United States and Japan, highlighting the challenges facing Chinese policymakers as they try to tackle rapidly declining birth rates, new research showed.