China has removed a three-decade tax exemption on contraceptives. This move aims to encourage more births in the country. Condoms and contr...

Chinese women are benefiting from new policies in some cities that allow them to access in-vitro fertility (IVF) treatment legally, regardl...

India is not experiencing any population explosion. Its population is, in fact, growing at only 0.8% a year, the lowest rate since Independ...

China's minimum paid marriage leave is three days, but provinces have been able to set their own more generous allowances since February.

With 850,000 fewer births than deaths last year, at least according to the country's official report, China joined an expanding set of nati...

China's fertility rates were already decreasing in the 1970s, and by 1980, the Chinese government formally instituted the controversial one...

A third of the world's population is unlikely to experience mass prosperity. With population decline in prosperous nations, what was touted...

The UN expects global population to hit 8 billion on Nov. 15 and grow to 8.5 billion by 2030. More than half the projected rise between now...

The combination of low fertility rates and an aging population has driven the government to roll out a wide range of policies to encourage ...

China's once-a-decade census, released this month, showed that 12 million babies were born in the last year, the lowest since 1961, during ...

India is expected to add nearly 273 million people to its population between now and 2050, a UN report said in 2019, forecasting that the c...

Chinese ODA loans carry interest rates of 3% per year, higher than that of Japan (0.4 - 1.2%), South Korea (0 - 2%), or India (1.75%).

China ended its decades-old one child policy in 2016 and permitted couples to have two children as the population of elderly rose with decl...

The report also points out that 51 countries are expected to show declining populations between 2017 and 2050. 83 countries show below repl...

China has banned single women using "assisted reproductive technology" to preserve their fertility for future following reports of its misu...

India is on course to top China as the world's most populous country in 2025, the US Census Bureau forecast, potentially changing the dynam...

China since 1980 has allowed most women to bear only one child, in a controversial policy aimed at creating a more sustainable population.