China’s Population Drops for the Fourth Year in a Row, Threatening Long-Term Risks for the Country’s Economy ...

Its current trajectory may have far-reaching economic consequences. Read more at straitstimes.com. Read more at ...

Despite efforts to encourage young couples to have children, China's birth rate hit a record low.

China’s economy met the government’s official growth target in 2025, with official figures showing real gross domestic product (GDP) expanded by 5%. Exports played an outsized role in delivering this ...

Measured another way, the birth rate in 2025 — 5.63 per 1,000 people — is the lowest on record since 1949, the year that Mao Zedong’s Communists overthrew the Nationalists and began running China.

China faces a shrinking population and record-low birth rates, challenging economic growth and straining pensions and healthcare.

China clocked its lowest birth rate on record in 2025 as its population shrank for the fourth year in a row, deepening a demographic challenge that could drag on the world’s second-largest economy for ...

BEIJING -- China's one-child policy, one of the harshest attempts at population control the world has seen, forced abortions on women, made sterilization widespread and led to baby daughters being ...

From ancient times until today, an enormous population has been a foundational way for China to project its strength. But anxiety about managing so many mouths ...

Japan is decades ahead of the rest of the world with an aging and shrinking population. There are some who claim we don’t know what will happen with future populations. However, the next 20 years are ...

China has had population control policies, which are now resulting in a declining population rate. To tackle that, it has now ...