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.

New marriages in China reportedly plummeted by one-fifth last year, implying that the official number of births will likely fall from 9.54 million in 2024 to 7.3- 7.8 million in 2025. Thus, while ...

China’s leaders are doubling down on winter tourism, “debut markets” and the silver economy to drive consumption and boost ...

Italy's demographic crisis deepened in 2024 as the number of births hit a new record low, emigration accelerated and the ...

But China has many other issues to deal with. There’s falling property prices, a shrinking population, and complaints from entrepreneurs about overbearing government. There’s no one better placed to ...

told local governments to direct resources towards fixing China’s population crisis and spread respect for childbearing and marriages "at the right age." Last year saw a slight rise in births ...

ROME, March 31 (Reuters) - Italy's demographic crisis deepened in 2024 as the number of births hit a new record low, emigration accelerated and the population continued to shrink, national ...

Once one of the country’s biggest growth drivers, China’s property market has been ... that the government’s measures to end the crisis had been working to reinvigorate the market, but ...

China’s provinces and local governments enjoy a high degree of autonomy and this extends to their financing. Local government has the right to raise its own funds through the direct issuance of bonds.

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