Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. China's population declined for the fourth year in a row, reaching 1.405 billion. Falling birth rates and an aging population ...

BEIJING — China's population fell for a fourth consecutive year in 2025 as the birthrate plunged to a record low, official data showed on Monday, with experts warning of further decline. The country's ...

The biggest challenge China faces right now isn’t the Trump administration and its campaign to decouple the world’s two biggest economies. It comes from within: China is experiencing population ...

Deputies from the People's Liberation Army arrive together at the National Peoples Congress at the Great Hall of the People. Much has been written about China’s sharp demographic shift, but less ...

BEIJING, March 5 (Reuters) - China said on Thursday it would build a "childbirth-friendly society" in the next five years, ...

China is experiencing rapid population aging and a declining workforce, posing significant economic and fiscal challenges, especially to the pension system. This paper examines the evolution of ...

BANGKOK (AP) — How do you persuade a population to have more babies after generations of limiting families to just one? A decade after ending China’s longtime one-child policy, the country’s ...

Evidence suggests that China's "cradle of civilization" experienced marked climate disasters and social upheavals during the mid-late Holocene (around 3,000 years ago). However, the direct causes and ...

China's population is shrinking — and the decline is accelerating. The country's population fell for the fourth year in a row, falling by 3.39 million to 1.405 billion people in 2025, according to new ...