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.

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 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.

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

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.

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

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 ...

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.

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 ...