Meanwhile, about 10.93 million people died, pushing the death rate to a five-decade high. Culture had a part to play in last ...

China said on Friday its population fell for the third year running in 2024, extending a downward streak after more than six ...

The reasons are in many cases similar: Rising costs of living are causing young people to put off or rule out marriage and ...

China's population declined for the third consecutive year, marking a significant demographic challenge. The decline is ...

The Chinese government's flurry of pro-natal policies has been credited with ending last year's seven-year birth rate decline, but some analysts caution this will prove to be the exception rather ...

BEIJING--Yue Yan is glad to have two daughters but sees why, even with the ruling Communist Party urging them to have more children, fewer Chinese women give birth at all. Yue, 35, spends days ...

[Photo/Xinhua] China's total population dropped for a third consecutive year in 2024, but a slight increase in the number of newborns demonstrates the outcomes of a national push to build a birth ...

The country’s population fell for a third straight year as deaths outpaced births.

China said Friday its population fell for ... as the country faces a rapidly ageing population and persistently low birth rates. Once the world’s most populous country, China was overtaken ...

The findings suggest fertility doctors should take more patient-level factors into account to improve the odds of success ...

China's population fell for a third consecutive year in 2024, with the number of deaths outpacing a slight increase in births ...