Policymakers should focus on increasing support for those who already want children, the researchers say.

NPR's Leila Fadel talks to Stuart Gietel-Basten, professor of social science at Hong Kong University of Science and Technology and Khalifa University in Dubai, about the decline in China's population.

Guest Contributors Tahina Montoya is a defense and policy researcher at RAND, and Kelly Atkinson is a political scientist at RAND.

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