Fourth year of decline deepens concerns over ageing, shrinking workforce and long-term economic impact ...
In fact, China is undergoing a demographic transition, with its population peaking at 1.41 billion in 2021-22. The total ...
BEIJING — China’s population dropped in 2023 by 2 million people — the second consecutive annual drop as births fell and deaths increased after the lifting of COVID-19 restrictions, the government ...
(Bloomberg) -- China’s population shrank for the third straight year in 2024, even though births rose slightly, underscoring a persistent long-term risk for the economy. The total number of people in ...
China's population has shrunk for the second year in a row. The National Bureau of Statistics reports just 9.02 million births in 2023—only half as many as in 2017. Set alongside China's 11.1 million ...
TAIPEI, Taiwan (AP) — 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, ...
China's elderly population — aged 60 and above, has taken over one fifth of the nation's total population in 2023, and the ...
China's National Bureau of Statistics has confirmed what researchers such as myself have long suspected—that 2022 was the year China's population turned down, the first time that has happened since ...
Beijing — China has announced its first population decline in decades as what has been the world's most populous nation ages and its birthrate plunges, posing new challenges for the slowing economy.