Despite Beijing’s campaign to encourage couples to have more children, new data shows China’s population decline is ...

While China has introduced a slew of measures to boost its population demographic, the country’s birth count is shrinking and rapidly shifting as an ageing society, according to a ...

China recorded just 7.92 million births, a 17 per cent drop from 9.54 million the previous year, and the lowest figure since 1949. Compared with the 2016 peak, the number of babies born has more than ...

China faces a shrinking population and record-low birth rates, challenging economic growth and straining pensions and ...

BEIJING, Jan 19 (Reuters) - China's population fell for a fourth consecutive year in 2025 as the birthrate plunged to a ...

The death of a former head of China's one-child policy has been met not by tributes but by castigation of the abandoned policy on social media this week. State media praised Peng Peiyun, head of China ...

With Beijing having accelerated family-support policies and childcare subsidies, analysts warn that structural reforms are vital to arrest the deepening slide China's birth count plummeted to a record ...