That compared with an increase of 5.84 percent to 1.34 billion in the 2010 census, and double-digit percentage rises in all of China’s previous six official population surveys dating back to 1953.

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As demographic shifts reshape the urban hierarchy, bigger cities may struggle with declining workforces, empty streets, ...

China is reaching out to the world to make trade deals amid President Donald Trump’s push to isolate the nation ...

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 ...

TAIPEI--China’s population fell last year for the third straight year, its government said Friday, pointing to further demographic challenges for the world’s second most populous nation ...

Experiences like theirs were common under the previous system. According to the national census, 493 million people in China were living apart from their registered hometowns as of 2020. More than 70 ...

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 ...

This paper examines the economic development and interregional migration in China using the migration statistics in the latest (sixth) national population census, conducted in 2010. More specifically, ...

according to estimates from the World Population Review, an independent organization focused on census and demographics. China’s population has shrunk for the first time in over six decades ...

[Photo/Xinhua] BEIJING -- The population of the Baer's Pochard (Aythya baeri), a critically endangered diving duck, has more than doubled in China over the past years, according to a nationwide ...