Beijing: China’s population decline accelerated in 2023, official data showed yesterday, extending a downward streak after more than six decades of growth as the country battles a looming ...

Such pronatalist policies run against the sentiment among a large segment of China’s youth, however. And many people do not want to have one or more children. China’s population decline raises ...

Adek Berry/Agence France-Presse — Getty Images The government has ... as incomes and education levels go up. But China’s sudden decline in population arrived much sooner than the government ...

China's population has decreased for the ... Despite a slight increase in the birth rate, experts warn that the rate of population decline may accelerate in the coming years.

Observers attributed China's latest population decline to a wave of pandemic deaths early in 2023, after the world's second largest economy abruptly dismantled its strict zero-COVID regime.

While stand-alone this may not appear as a very pertinent challenge, coupled with the consistent decline in population, it gets compounded. China’s population has been declining consistently for ...

"Much of China's population decline is rooted in entrenched structural reasons: Without fundamental structural transformations - from enhancing the social safety net to eliminating gender ...