China said on Friday its population fell for the third year running in 2024 ... China ended its strict "one-child policy", imposed in the 1980s over overpopulation fears, in 2016 and started letting ...

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

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 ...

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

China’s population has fallen for the third straight year, pointing to further demographic challenges for the world’s second most populous nation that is now facing both an aging population and an eme ...

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

except for a brief uptick in 2016 as the government relaxed its one-child policy. Bloomberg Intelligence has estimated that China’s population will shrink to 1.36 billion by 2035, a level not ...

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 ...

a professor at Fudan University’s Institute of Population Studies told The New York Times. China’s birth rates have been declining for decades, driven by the “one-child policy” implemented ...

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 ...