The national birth rate for 2022 fell to a record ... while the female population was 689.69 million. China’s family planning policy aims to limit the number of children Chinese families can ...

China’s population has shrunk for three years in a row despite a slight increase in the birth rate last year ... and births ...

China has the second-biggest population in the world at 1.4 billion - one that is aging quickly. The birth rate fell for decades due to China's 1980-2015 one-child policy and rapid urbanisation.

One analyst attributes the baby bump to the auspicious Year of the Dragon but warns the long-term outlook is bleak.

BEIJING--Yue Yan is glad to have two daughters but sees why, even with the ruling Communist Party urging them to have more children, fewer Chinese women give birth at all. Yue, 35, spends days ...

[Photo/Xinhua] China's total population dropped for a third consecutive year in 2024, but a slight increase in the number of newborns demonstrates the outcomes of a national push to build a birth ...

He has covered foreign policy and defense matters, especially in relation to U.S.-China ties and cross-strait ... government's angst over the flagging birth rate is driving localities to ...

A shifting tide of demographic policies has brought renewed attention to the status of women’s rights in China. Given the historic plunge in the national birth rate and widespread public ...

The significant drop suggests a likely decline in the birth rate in 2025. "Given that the vast majority of births in China occur within marriage … the sharp decline in marriage registrations in ...