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 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 housing market is unraveling - and it’s not just Evergrande. This video reveals how decades of overbuilding, ...

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.

Why It Matters: This educational initiative comes at a time when new marriages in China have seen a 12.4% surge in 2023, breaking a nine-year streak of declines.Despite this, over half of the ...

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 has no choice but to keep raising the retirement age for workers, according to Yi Fuxian.; The nation has a demographic crisis, which is straining the pension system, the researcher said ...

Eighty years ago, on June 26, 1945, the UN Charter was signed at the conclusion of the United Nations Conference on ...

If current trends continue, the population could fall from more than 1.4 billion to less than 800 million by the end of the century, according to the United Nations.

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

The workforce needed to support the retirement-age population is also shrinking, with the number of births falling 10% in 2022 to their lowest level on record. Last year, China fell to the world ...

China's share of the world's live births is expected to drop to around 3% in 2100 from 8% in 2021, according to Austin Schumacher, an assistant professor of health metrics sciences at the ...