China’s birth rate hit rock bottom, one decade after it announced the end of its one-child policy, multiple outlets reported Monday. Meanwhile, the country’s population fell for the fourth straight ...

HONG KONG — China’s population declined last year for the second year in a row, officials said Wednesday, spurred by record-low births and a wave of Covid-19 deaths that have deepened demographic ...

China’s population of 1.4 billion people is the largest in the world, right? Not anymore. In 2023 India surpassed China as the most populous country. China’s population began shrinking in 2022, and ...

China's population, reported to be 1.41 billion, will drop to 330 million by the end of the century, predicts Yi Fuxian of the University of Wisconsin-Madison. This startling conclusion is included in ...

A decade since the One-Child Policy’s reversal, the number of annual births in China has declined to a record low. In many ways, China is attempting to legislate a future which it spent 40 years ...

The fall came despite a slight rise in births last year, the first increase since 2016. State efforts to cajole women to have children have met resistance. By Alexandra Stevenson and Zixu Wang ...