An elementary school in Yimianpo is now a storage yard. The number of children in the town has dropped by half and there are ...

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 world faces an unprecedented demographic shift that has governments and experts scrambling for solutions. While global ...

Elderly people rest at a park on a summer day in Beijing HONG KONG (Reuters) -China's population fell for a third consecutive year in 2024, with the number of deaths outpacing a slight increase in ...

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 ...

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China’s population continued to decline last year—though births edged up for the first time in eight years—falling for a third straight year as deaths outpaced births. China had seen birth numbers ...

China, the world’s second-largest economy, is facing a demographics crisis. Its population fell in 2024 for the third straight year and is projected to halve by the end of the century, while marriages ...

Virginia Allen is a senior news producer for The Daily Signal and host of "The Daily Signal Podcast" and "Problematic Women." Send an email to Virginia. China’s birth rate is falling below replacement ...

Single and married women across China are receiving cold calls from local authorities encouraging them to step up and have more children. They are but one demographic targeted for mobilization by ...