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 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.

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

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 ...

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 ...

Marriage rates in China continued to plummet last year, deepening the country’s demographic crisis and highlighting the public’s changing attitudes towards marriage, childbirth, family ...

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 ...

The Wall Street Journal adds, “Companies in China have attracted attention ... suspected of traveling to give birth.” The federal government tried to limit birth tourism during the first ...