For decades, China has tried to rein in its population growth, allowing families to have only one child. Now, as it faces a decline, Beijing is trying to reverse what appears as an almost ...

China’s population fell for the first time since 1961 last year as deaths outweighed births six years after Beijing ended its one-child policy in a bid to avoid a looming demographic crisis.

UNITED NATIONS, June 10 (Xinhua) -- The UN Population Fund (UNFPA) on Tuesday warned of a crisis of "reproductive agency" amid declining birth rates in many parts of the world.

China’s marriage and fertility rates remain on a downward trajectory, fueling a demographic crisis that threatens the nation’s economic and social stability. In this six-part series, we ...

China’s overall population now stands at 1.41 billion. By 2035, 400 million people in China are expected to be over 60, accounting for nearly a third of its population.

China’s population is falling for the first time in 60 years, but Japan has been battling its own demographic crisis since 2008 and provides a possible snapshot of China’s future.

China's fertility rate, which last year reached 1.0 births expected per woman's lifetime, is far below the 2.1 rate considered necessary to replace a population.

A quick recap: Shortly after the CCP took power in China in 1949, Chairman Mao Zedong encouraged population growth to create manpower. As a result, China’s population nearly doubled in 30 years.

Texas A&M University professor Dudley L. Poston Jnr sparks debate by saying China needs immigration to mitigate population decline An American demographer has stirred a debate with an article ...

The companies participating in the initiative would be required to conduct trials of over 200 robotic systems in more than ...

The origins of the huge gap date back to China's one-child policy, introduced in 1980 amid fears of overpopulation.

For years, just as China was opening its economy, the share of working-age Chinese grew faster than the parts of the population that didn’t work. That was a big factor in China’s economic miracle.