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 ...

Lowest birth rate on record underscores deepening demographic pressures a decade after end of one-child policy ...

China’s population crisis deepened in 2025 as births fell to a historic low, highlighting the limits of Beijing’s efforts to ...

Birth rate numbers released Monday, the lowest since Mao's Communists established the People's Republic in 1949, are the ...

Fourth year of decline deepens concerns over ageing, shrinking workforce and long-term economic impact ...

Back in April 2023, the UN acknowledged that India had overtaken China as the most populous country. Incidentally, China’s ...

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 ...