Yi Fuxian



Yi Fuxian (易富贤) is a demographer and obstetrics and gynecology (OB/GYN) researcher at the University of Wisconsin-Madison and author of the 2007 book Big Country with an Empty Nest, which criticised China's birth policies. The book was banned in mainland China from the time of publication until 2013, when a Chinese government press published a new edition and promoted the book.

In 2019, Yi claimed that China's population had already started declining with a total fertility rate (TFR) of only 1.1, when the official projections were still at 1.8. Furthermore, Yi has estimated that China's population is only 1.28 billion, instead of the 1.41 billion the government claims.