After decades of curbing births, China is urgently trying to reverse a population slump that puts its economic and political ...

Dem dey offer parents in China 3,600 yuan (£375; $500) a year for each of dia children under di age of three in di goment ...

China’s population began shrinking in 2022, and the latest United Nations report indicates that it could slip to 1.3 billion in 2050 and then plummet to only 770 million in 2100.

Set alongside China’s 11.1 million deaths in 2023, up 500,000 on 2022, it means China’s population shrank 2.08 million in 2023 after falling 850,000 in 2022.

China has allocated 90 billion yuan ($12.5 billion) for childcare benefit payments in 2025 to combat the country''s declining birth rate, an official of the Chinese Finance Ministry''s Department of ...

China offers parents £375 per child to tackle declining birth rate - Nationwide subsidy scheme expected to benefit over 20 ...

China's population aged 60 and over reached 296.97 million in 2023, about 21.1% of its total population, up from 280.04 million in 2022.

The global fertility rate was 2.2 births per woman last year, down from five in the 1960s and 3.3 in 1990, according to the ...

China's population, reported to be 1.41 billion, will drop to 330 million by the end of the century, predicts Yi Fuxian of the University of Wisconsin-Madison. This startling conclusion is ...