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

China's total population has declined by 3.4 million. This is the biggest drop since the severe famine of 1960 during the rule of former leader Mao Zedong, bringing the population down to 1.405 ...

Last week, Beijing’s release of China’s national birth count for 2025 left demographers stunned. The national birth total plummeted by over 17% from 2024 to 2025, the PRC disclosed. That sort of ...

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China is shrinking as more couples are making a conscious choice not to have babies, a challenge for President Xi Jinping's ...

China’s pension dilemma involves not only a shrinking workforce but also persistent inequality between urban residents and rural migrants.

China's real estate sector has grappled with a deepening downturn for years. Now a shrinking population is casting another shadow over the stagnant property market. Stream NBC 5 for free, 24/7, ...

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 ...

A woman lifts up a child in Beijing, China, on Jan. 15, 2026. (AP Photo/Ng Han Guan) A woman lifts up a child in Beijing, China, on Jan. 15, 2026. (AP Photo/Ng Han Guan) People catch a sight of the ...

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 ...