The trend among Chinese women of postponing or eschewing marriage will undermine Beijing’s efforts to boost falling birth rates, says Yi Fuxian of the University of Wisconsin-Madison.

Within months of leaving hospital, the local government paid Tang a 6,500-yuan (US$897) reward for having two children as ...

In population dynamics, there is an "echo effect". Today's aging population is the echo of a long period of low fertility ...

A doctor writes tuberculosis prevention information on the health bulletin board at his clinic in Yangang Village of Yudu county, east China's Jiangxi province, Aug. 15, 2023. [Photo/Xinhua] The ...

Only a few countries have fertility rates below 1.2 children per woman, including South Korea, China ... population shrank by 37,000 to 58.9mn at the end of 2024, continuing a decline that ...