China’s population is considered both an internal and an international issue due to several factors including the U.S. and India.

China's population is shrinking for the first time since 1949. This marks a significant shift from its historical reliance on a large popul...

China’s population fell for the fourth straight year in 2025, dropping by 3.39 million to 1.405 billion, faster than in 2024. Births fell t...

China announced new measures to simplify the marriage registration process to reduce financial burdens on couples, aiming to address the de...

China will launch tourist trains with medical and elder-care facilities by 2027. This initiative aims to tap into the spending power of its...

China's population fell for a third consecutive year in 2024, with the number of deaths outpacing a slight increase in births, and experts ...

China's population is projected to decrease by 51 million over the next decade, reaching 1.36 billion by 2035. This decline is attributed t...

Faced with a declining population, the Chinese government is actively promoting childbirth by intruding into private lives. This includes m...

In response to China's declining birthrate, businesses are shifting focus from children to the elderly. Li Dongmei, who once ran kindergart...

The measures come after China's population fell for a second consecutive year in 2023, with new births dropping to about half of those in 2...

India’s population remains largely rural, unlike China’s. Even as both countries are seeing workers migrate to megacities seeking better pr...

China ended its strict one-child policy — imposed in the 1980s owing to fears of overpopulation — in 2016 and began allowing couples to hav...

The country had 1.41175 billion people at at the end of 2022, compared with 1.41260 billion a year earlier, China's National Bureau of Stat...

China passed the three-child policy in August last year in a major policy shift to address the deepening demographic crisis attributed to t...

Last year, China had relaxed its decades-old rigid 'one child policy' amid concerns over rapidly ageing population which has already touche...

China's population is expected to reach about 1.42 billion by 2020, the National Health and Family Planning Commission said.

One-third of China's population were using the Internet at the end of 2010, taking the total number of people with net connections to 457 m...