The population of the world’s second most populous country dropped by 3.39 million in 2025 to 1.405 billion, a faster decline ...

China's population fell for a fourth consecutive year in 2025 as the birthrate plunged to a record low, official data showed ...

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 ...

China’s birth rate hit rock bottom, one decade after it announced the end of its one-child policy, multiple outlets reported ...

China’s population fell for a fourth straight year and its birthrate tumbled as policymakers failed to slow a demographic ...

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

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

A decade after ending China’s longtime, one-child policy, authorities are pushing a whole range of ideas and policies to try ...

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

China’s urban population surpassed 943m in 2024, say official statistics, an increase of 100m in just seven years. The ...

China's population fell for the fourth straight year in 2025 as its birth rates sunk to a record low, despite the government ...

China's population dropped for a fourth straight year in 2025, according to statistics released Monday that show a national ...