Apollo Global Management’s chief economist, Torsten Sløk, has spotlighted a striking demographic transformation unfolding in ...

Much has been written about China’s sharp demographic shift, but less attention has been paid to how this might affect—or ...

China’s population grew at its slowest rate in decades in the 10 years prior to 2020, according to census data released on Tuesday — a trend that could pose serious issues for the world’s ...

The country’s population fell in 2022 to 1.411 billion, down some 850,000 people from the previous year, China’s National Bureau of Statistics (NBS) announced during a Tuesday briefing on ...

China soon won't be the world's most populous country. The government released data Tuesday from a once-a-decade census conducted late last year that shows population growth has slowed to a crawl.

The data show China's population grew at its slowest pace since at least 1953, when modern-day census-taking started. There was an increase of just 5.4% from 2010.

China’s demographic problem lies mostly in how the burden of a large population of retirees will prevent a narrowing workforce from producing much of an economic surplus.

China’s working-age population, those aged 15-64, will contract by over 20 million over the next 10 years. While not an especially large drop for a country of China’s size, this will mark a ...

Ethnic minorities in China are growing faster than the majority Han population. According to the 2020 census, Han Chinese account for 91.11 percent of the population, while ethnic minorities ...

It came as a surprise to many people when China's population fell for the first time in six decades in 2022, dropping by 850,000 from the previous year.. Coming at least five years earlier than ...

China said its population hit 1.41 billion in 2020, eking out a tiny rise from the previous year, underlining how the world’s most populous nation is going to have to face its demographic ...

China’s population grew at its slowest rate in decades in the 10 years prior to 2020, according to census data released on Tuesday — a trend that could pose serious issues for the world’s ...