China's total population dropped for a third consecutive year in 2024, but a slight increase in the number of newborns demonstrates the outcomes of a national push to build a birth-friendly society ...

China’s population fell for a third consecutive year ... China further loosened its family planning restrictions in 2021, allowing couples to have a third child. Analysts said the uptick in ...

China’s population continues to shrink as deaths outnumber births Note: In 2015, China announced that all married couples would be allowed to have two children. In 2021, China said it would ...

China said on Friday its population fell for the third year running ... in 2016 and started letting couples have three children in 2021. But that has failed to reverse the demographic decline ...

China’s population fell last year for the third straight year, its government said Friday, pointing to further demographic challenges for the world’s second most populous nation, which is now ...