More disturbing for the government was the drastically falling birthrate, with China’s total population dropping for the first time in decades in 2022 and China being narrowly overtaken by India ...

The population stood at 1.408 billion by the end of the year ... The decline was less sharp than the previous year, when it was more than double the fall reported for 2022, data showed. China ended ...

The world's second largest economy faces demographic headwinds, as its dwindling population continues to age, leaving a declining workforce.

The population of China, the world’s second-most populous ... by 2.08 million people in 2023 and by 850,000 inhabitants in 2022. That was the first decline since 1961, when the number of ...

According to the latest data from the Chinese National Bureau of Statistics, the population declined by 1.39 million to 1.408 billion in 2024, down from 1.409 billion in 2023, the Taipei Times ...

China ceded its position as the most populated country to India in 2023, after the population began to fall in 2022. Women are having fewer babies despite the easing of China’s one-child policy ...

China’s population has fallen for the third straight year, pointing to further demographic challenges for the world’s second most populous nation that is now facing both an aging population and an eme ...

The population stood at 1.408 billion by the ... when it was more than double the fall reported for 2022, data showed. China ended its strict “one-child policy”, imposed in the 1980s over ...