Despite Beijing’s campaign to encourage couples to have more children, new data shows China’s population decline is ...
China faces a shrinking population and record-low birth rates, challenging economic growth and straining pensions and ...
Lowest birth rate on record underscores deepening demographic pressures a decade after end of one-child policy ...
China’s population crisis deepened in 2025 as births fell to a historic low, highlighting the limits of Beijing’s efforts to ...
Back in April 2023, the UN acknowledged that India had overtaken China as the most populous country. Incidentally, China’s ...
With Beijing having accelerated family-support policies and childcare subsidies, analysts warn that structural reforms are vital to arrest the deepening slide China's birth count plummeted to a record ...
Fourth year of decline deepens concerns over ageing, shrinking workforce and long-term economic impact ...
BEIJING, Jan 19 (Reuters) - China's population fell for a fourth consecutive year in 2025 as the birthrate plunged to a ...
The death of a former head of China's one-child policy has been met not by tributes but by castigation of the abandoned policy on social media this week. State media praised Peng Peiyun, head of China ...
From China's record-low birth count to what Trump said about Greenland at Davos, here are highlights from SCMP's recent reporting We have selected seven stories from this week's news across Hong Kong, ...
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