This shocking statistic is only the start of China's population decline. This year India is set to surpass China's population, and in a few years it will surpass China's working-age population ...

[AP Photo] China has announced its first overall population decline in recent years amid an aging society and plunging birthrate. The National Bureau of Statistics reported the country had 850,000 ...

China’s population continued to decline last year—though births edged up for the first time in eight years—falling for a third straight year as deaths outpaced births. China had seen birth ...

When the Financial Times reported that China is set to announce its first population decline since the famine that accompanied Mao Zedong’s Great Leap Forward, Chinese authorities rushed to ...