For the third consecutive year, China’s population has declined. To revive the country’s birth rate, authorities are relying ...

The world's second largest economy faces demographic headwinds, as its dwindling population continues to age, leaving a declining workforce.

The population stood at 1.408 billion by the end of the year, Beijing's National Bureau of Statistics said, down from 1.410 billion in 2023. The decline was less sharp than the previous year, when it ...

China's low birth rate and aging population are ending any hopes Beijing had of overtaking the U.S. as an economic giant.

In 2021, panicked officials loosened China’s birth policy again, allowing couples to have three children. It was too late. The next year, so few babies were born that the population began to ...

China formally ended its “one-child policy” in 2016 that for decades sought to control the country’s growth, but it ended with a lopsided population due to a cultural preference for male ...

The number of newborns has been falling steadily since the 1960s, except for a brief uptick in 2016 as the government relaxed its one-child policy. The latest population decline widens China’s ...

The population stood at 1.408 billion ... than double the fall reported for 2022, data showed. China ended its strict “one-child policy”, imposed in the 1980s over overpopulation fears ...

According to the National Statistics Bureau, China has recorded a negative natural increase for the third consecutive year despite a rise in the number of births. China has been experiencing ...

China, following Japan and South Korea, has entered an era of full-fledged population decline. What should be done to halt ...

"Much of China's population decline is rooted in entrenched ... death rates in China with the impact of famine and one-child policy annotated. The number of Chinese women of reproductive age ...