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 ...

China’s annual Two Sessions political meetings recently drew to a close, minus the presence of National People’s Congress (NPC) Chairman Zhao Leji, the nation’s third most senior official.

In contrast to China, India’s population is continuing to increase. In 2022, India’s growing population overtook China to become the world’s largest national population. Furthermore, India’s current ...

China is planning new measures to boost its flagging birth rate and address its growing elderly population, but one analyst warns that more action may be needed to prevent a demographic collapse.

National Bureau of Statistics data reveals that between the end of the 2022 Winter Olympics and April 2024, 313 million ...

China’s population fell for the third year in a row in 2024 and it already has more than 310 million people aged 60 and over. As the workforce shrinks, the government has increasingly looked to ...

A total of 47,635 people died of COVID-related causes in 2022. In the category of “the natural population increases or decreases,” which is the difference between the number of births and ...

HONG KONG – China will “actively” respond to population ageing with policies for its rapidly growing elderly and its young people, including providing childcare subsidies and making ...

HONG KONG, March 5 (Reuters) - China will "actively" respond to population aging with policies for its rapidly growing elderly and its young people, including providing childcare subsidies and ...

China's population fell for the third year in a row in 2024 and it already has more than 310 million people aged 60 and over. As the workforce shrinks, the government has increasingly looked to ...