China posted its lowest birth rate since the founding of the People’s Republic in 1949, with 2025 data showing the country ...
China has had population control policies, which are now resulting in a declining population rate. To tackle that, it has now come up with some out-of-the-box ideas. From taxing condoms to proposing a ...
China’s latest national accounts show the economy grew by about 5% through 2025 and into the first quarter of 2026, pointing ...
The world faces an unprecedented demographic shift that has governments and experts scrambling for solutions. While global population reached 8 billion people in November 2022, the UN's 2024 ...
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’s population rate declined again last year, as the country grapples with how to revive birth rates 10 years after ending its decadeslong one-child policy. China’s birth rate in 2025 stood at ...
Rising pension burdens and social security subsidies are also straining public finances - though trends remain uneven, analysts say China's population is projected to fall by about 60 million over the ...
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 ...
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