The death of Peng Peiyun, a former senior Chinese official who oversaw the countrys one-child policy for a decade, has ...

It wasn’t expected to happen so soon, but it has been a long time coming. Earlier this week, for the first time in six decades, official statistics revealed a dip in China’s population. At the bottom ...

China is entering a demographic phase most countries reach much later in development. Its population is aging rapidly, while ...

China has had a population decline for the second straight year. It’s a symptom of a much bigger issue. After seven years of a dropping birthrate and an increasing death rate, the nation is headed ...

Beijing — China has announced its first population decline in decades as what has been the world's most populous nation ages and its birthrate plunges, posing new challenges for the slowing economy.

The news that China’s population shrank in 2022 caused a sensation. Despite it being a relatively modest drop of around 850,000 (or a loss of 0.6 per thousand), many articles not only expressed shock, ...

BEIJING — China’s population dropped in 2023 by 2 million people — the second consecutive annual drop as births fell and deaths increased after the lifting of COVID-19 restrictions, the government ...

When the demise of the People’s Republic of China occurs — perhaps soon and perhaps many decades from now — the story will be not of Western aggression, but of national suicide. The obvious catalyst ...

A nation and its attendant economy are only as strong and great as its population base. A key factor undergirding that population is a nation’s total fertility rate. And China is one of the leading ...

BEIJING — China’s population shrank last year for the first time in decades as its birthrate plunged, official figures showed Tuesday, adding to pressure on leaders to keep the economy growing despite ...

Beijing has spent the past week needling Washington over the forcible deflation and subsequent crash of a certain balloon. But a different sort of leakage should worry Beijing much more: China’s ...