Now, facing a population decline, coupled with a long-running rise in life expectancy, the country is being thrust into a demographic crisis that will have consequences not just for China and its ...

I write about Asia's economic, trade and policy matters. China’s National Bureau of Statistics said the country’s population grew by just 480,000 people in 2021–a record low increase that ...

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 ...

the policy change has not reversed the demographic decline. In the long term, United Nations experts believe, China’s population could reduce by 109 million by the year 2050, more than triple ...

In China, a striking 94% of the population lives below a specific red line on the map that divides the country into two ...

China has a closing window ... A widening demographic imbalance – resulting from a low birth rate combined with a rapidly ageing population – continues to plague the world’s second-largest ...

The number of births has been below 10 million since 2022. The United Nations estimates that China’s population will halve to ...

China's population has decreased for the third consecutive ... and gender inequalities are deepening the demographic crisis, and Chinese authorities are implementing programs to increase birth ...

China has no choice but to keep raising the retirement age for workers, according to Yi Fuxian. The nation has a demographic crisis, which is straining the pension system, the researcher said.

TAIPEI, Taiwan — China's population fell last year for the third straight year, its government said Friday, pointing to further demographic challenges for the world's second most populous nation ...

The country's National Bureau of Statistics reported a drop of roughly 850,000 people for a population of 1.41175 billion in 2022, marking the first decline since 1961, the last year of China's ...