China said on Friday its population fell for the third year running in 2024, extending a downward streak after more than six decades of growth as the country faces a rapidly ageing population and ...

China’s population dynamics remain a critical challenge for its economic and social stability. Despite a modest rise in births in 2024, the nation’s population shrank for the third consecutive ...

China has been keen to slow population growth for a number of years. A larger population equals more mouths to feed, more houses and jobs required and a greater demand on schools and hospitals.

In 1950, children aged 10 or younger accounted for the largest share of China’s population. This population pyramid is estimated to change shape dramatically by 2050. Sources: United Nations ...

China has been keen to slow population growth for several years. A larger population equals more mouths to feed, more houses and jobs required and a greater demand on schools and hospitals.

The last time China’s population declined was in the early 1960s, when the country was battling the worst famine in its modern history, a result of the disastrous Mao Zedong agricultural policy ...

The regions that reported population growth are the Xinjiang Uygur and Xizang autonomous regions, and Shaanxi province in western China; Zhejiang, Anhui and Fujian provinces in the east ...

In these turbulent times, Indonesia and China need more successful, exemplary cooperation that inspires and empowers across ...

The country's shrinking population is a grim omen for the rest of the world China's population is shrinking. While the massive country is still home to 1.4 billion people — nearly one out of ...

potentially opening the door for China to forge closer ties to countries traditionally aligned with Washington. “Our three nations have a combined population of nearly 1.6 billion and an ...