China's population has slowed significantly and is expected to start to shrink ahead of 2025. ... Only China’s southern Guangdong province has had more than 1 million new births, it said.

Yang Wenzhuang, head of population and family affairs at China's National Health Commission, said the country's population is expected to begin declining in 2021-2025, according to state-backed ...

The first shows the four Chinese provinces overlaid atop a map of the United States. The second gives a province-by-province breakdown of China’s population: These maps make two things clear.

China may be one step closer to losing its place as the world’s most populous country to India after its population shrank for the first time since the 1960s. The country’s population fell in ...

Chart: China’s Provinces Rival Countries in Population Size. The very mention of China triggers both awe and anxiety in the mainstream media. With the globe’s largest GDP (PPP) at $23.12 ...

Even if the birth rate stabilizes, experts say, China’s population will still fall 50 percent or more by 2100, when it might be only half as big as India’s and comparable in size to Nigeria’s.

Henan's 99 million population ranks third among China's provinces, behind southern Guangdong's 127 million and eastern Shandong's 102 million. China has a population of 1.4 billion people.

China’s first population decline in 60 years sounds demographic alarm. ... one of China’s most populous provinces, is expanding benefits to unmarried parents amid a looming demographic crisis.