Why It Matters While China's birth rate saw a slight uptick in 2024, marking the first increase in eight years, the overall ...

Local Chinese authorities have stepped up efforts to encourage women to consider having more children, including through ...

China has been keen to slow population growth for several years. A larger population equals more mouths to feed, more houses and jobs required and a greater demand on schools and hospitals.

China's aging population will have a direct impact on its ability to compete with the US and other nations on the world stage, according to a report from consultancy firm Terry Group. The latest ...

The country's shrinking population is a grim omen for the rest of the world China's population is shrinking. While the massive country is still home to 1.4 billion people — nearly one out of ...

China's population fell for the third year in a row in 2024 and it already has more than 310 million people aged 60 and over. As the workforce shrinks, the government has increasingly looked to ...

But, as Macquarie points out, that's just one of several big issues facing China right now. Here are 4 of the scariest charts ... China's working age population has peaked - the percentage ...

HONG KONG – China will “actively” respond to population ageing with policies for its rapidly growing elderly and its young people, including providing childcare subsidies and making ...

News: China raises retirement age as it battles slow economy Country announced the move as a way to deal with its ageing population of ... the new changes were in line with expectations.

“The earlier we educate young people about reproductive health, the better we can protect their future fertility,” said He Dan, director of the China Population and Development Research ...

Births in China could drop below 8 million this year, setting a record low and further clouding the country’s gloomy demographic outlook, according to a leading medical academic. “The expected ...