The world’s most populous country until recently, China saw its population fall for a third consecutive year in 2024, and ...

The chart above shows the makeup of China's GDP growth ... China's working age population has peaked - the percentage of people aged 15-64 is set to decline over the next 50 years.

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 ...

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 ...

This is the second in a series on how a tumultuous first half of 2023 featured economic pitfalls and headwinds that have left China struggling ... marking the first population decline in 61 ...

He covers U.S.-China ... steady decline for years. The country's fertility rate last year stood at just 1.0 births per woman, far below the replacement level of 2.1 needed to sustain 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 stood at 1.408 billion at the end of 2024, a decline of 1.39 million from the previous year. The figures announced by the government in Beijing follow trends worldwide ...