China’s Population Drops for the Fourth Year in a Row, Threatening Long-Term Risks for the Country’s Economy ...

Last week, Beijing’s release of China’s national birth count for 2025 left demographers stunned. The national birth total ...

BEIJING, Jan 19 (Reuters) - China's population fell for a fourth consecutive year in 2025 as the birthrate plunged to a record low, official data showed on Monday, with experts warning of further ...

Its current trajectory may have far-reaching economic consequences. Read more at straitstimes.com. Read more at ...

China’s birth rate hit rock bottom, one decade after it announced the end of its one-child policy, multiple outlets reported ...

China’s population crisis deepened in 2025 as births fell to a historic low, highlighting the limits of Beijing’s efforts to boost fertility through subsidies and policy reforms.

Measured another way, the birth rate in 2025 — 5.63 per 1,000 people — is the lowest on record since 1949, the year that Mao Zedong’s Communists overthrew the Nationalists and began running China.

China has had population control policies, which are now resulting in a declining population rate. To tackle that, it has now ...

Forbes contributors publish independent expert analyses and insights. I write about Asia's economic, trade and policy matters. JINGXIAN, CHINA - An empty classroom in a junior high school. China has ...

China has just announced that births in 2025 plunged to 7.92 million, from 9.54 million the previous year – and almost half ...

China’s population fell again, marking the fourth straight year of decline. According to new government data released this ...

China’s economy met the government’s official growth target in 2025, with official figures showing real gross domestic product (GDP) expanded by 5%. Exports played an outsized role in delivering this ...