BBC Future answers five key questions about China's recent population decline and what it might ... counteract those that die as infants. Getty Images China is the world's largest consumer of ...

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 ...

The People's Republic of China has recorded a decline in its population ... (Lam Yik/Bloomberg via Getty Images / Getty Images) The statistic only covers population changes in the mainland and ...

A woman pushes a child in a stroller past a mural of a giraffe in Chengdu, China, on June 5, 2022. (He Haiyang/Sichuan Daily/VCG via Getty Images) Next year ... projected to experience an absolute ...

China will soon no longer be world’s most populous country—a title it has held for centuries—underscoring the daunting challenge it confronts to maintain its global dominance. BUNDLES OF JOY ...

According to the Taipei Times, the population decline is largely attributed to the legacy of the one-child policy, which was enforced from 1980 until 2015, and its lasting effects on China’s ...

The population of China, the world’s second-most populous ... in 2023 and by 850,000 inhabitants in 2022. That was the first decline since 1961, when the number of inhabitants shrank as a ...

For decades, China has tried to rein in its population ... AFP/AFP via Getty Images "The Chinese government is clearly very concerned with this unexpected rapid fertility decline, even after ...

A growing number of countries are confronting the dual challenges of population decline and aging ... in health care extend life expectancy. China said Friday that its population fell for the ...

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 ...