After seven years of decline, China's birth rate ticked slightly upward last year, a shift analysts have attributed to the ...

China will launch a network of “silver trains” for elderly tourists as part of a plan to unleash the spending power of one of ...

The number of new marriages recorded in China fell to a record low last year, despite sweeping government efforts to ...

China’s population stood at 1.408 billion at the ... to feed itself and began implementing a draconian “one child policy.” Though it was never law, women had to apply for permission to ...

As per data released by Ministry of Civil Affairs, only 6.1 million couples registered their marriages last year, a ...

China's low birth rate and aging population are ending any hopes Beijing had of overtaking the U.S. as an economic giant.

a professor at Fudan University’s Institute of Population Studies told The New York Times. China’s birth rates have been declining for decades, driven by the “one-child policy” implemented ...

The world's second largest economy faces demographic headwinds, as its dwindling population continues to age, leaving a declining workforce.

Marriages in China plummeted by a fifth last year, the biggest drop on record, despite manifold efforts by authorities to ...

China's population dipped further in 2024 ... a reversal the statistic bureau attributed to new pro-natal policies and the year of the dragon, considered an auspicious year of the Chinese zodiac ...

Officials believe the decline in marriages directly impacts the country’s falling birth rate. In China, social norms and ...

The number of newborns has been falling steadily since the 1960s, except for a brief uptick in 2016 as the government relaxed its one-child policy. The latest population decline widens China’s ...