After nearly four decades of its one-child policy, designed to curb population growth and reform the country’s economy, China has fully removed all childrearing limits in recent years.

China’s one-child policy, which lasted from 1980 to 2015, significantly shaped the nation’s demographics. While it effectively curbed population growth—preventing an estimated 400 million ...

After nearly four decades of its one-child policy, designed to curb population growth and reform the country's economy, China has fully removed all childrearing limits in recent years. But the ...

Background and Purpose: As the global fertility rate declines, China has issued two and three-child policies in the past 10 years. Therefore, this study serves to evaluate fertility intention rates ...

Strict rules designed to protect children mean large numbers of would-be adopters are facing a near-impossible task.

Marriages in China plummeted by a fifth last year, the biggest drop on record, despite manifold efforts by authorities to ...

Some responses were candid, others disappeared moments later — but all revealed something about the state of the Catholic ...

The number of registered marriages in China dropped 20.5 percent from the previous year to 6,106,000 in 2024, the lowest ...

China's population fell in 2024 for the third straight year. Bloomberg Intelligence analyst Ada Li speaks with John Lee and ...

Marriages in China last year plunged 20 percent to a record low as young people resisted government efforts to convince them ...

The number of new marriages recorded in China fell to a record low last year, despite sweeping government efforts to ...