China's population is expected to peak to 1.45 billion in 2030, then drop to 1.4 billion by 2050 and 1.1 billion by the end of this century. Stating this, deputy head of the National Health and Family Planning Commission, Wang Peian, said in Beijing that China's working age population between 15 and 64 years is still a little over one billion and accounts for 73 per cent of the total population.<br/><br/>He said the working age population will gradually drop to 985 million in 2020 and to around 800 million by 2050.<br/><br/>Last year, China had relaxed its decades-old rigid 'one child policy' amid concerns over rapidly ageing population which has already touched about 220 million and was expected to climb sharply in the coming year.<br/><br/>Wang noted that following the second-child policy, a total of 18.46 million births were recorded across China in 2016.