China’s collapsing birthrate is shrinking its workforce, distorting its military calculus, and compressing Beijing’s strategic timeline, creating a narrowing window in which demographic decline may ...

China’s birth rate has hit a historic low – deepening fears of a major economic shock in the decades to come as the country’s ...

India’s choice to avoid coercion and respect women’s reproductive freedom not only preserves social stability but also leverages the natural benefits of an educated population ...

As China's birthrate hit a record low, CNBC's China Correspondent Elaine Yu reports on the factors weighing on the shrinking population and the economic implications of the demographic crisis.

The biggest challenge China faces right now isn’t the Trump administration and its campaign to decouple the world’s two biggest economies. It comes from within: China is experiencing population ...

Last week, Beijing’s release of China’s national birth count for 2025 left demographers stunned. The national birth total plummeted by over 17% from 2024 to 2025, the PRC disclosed. That sort of ...

High up Shenzhen’s Ping An Finance Center—the world’s fifth-tallest skyscraper—is a modest one-bedroom demo apartment. It’s well-furnished, smartly designed, and wouldn’t be out of place in one of ...

China's efforts to bolster birth rates have yet to address the core reasons for their rapid decline, according to analysts. The number of new marriage registrations also plunged by 25% year on year in ...

The number of Chinese who believe that “hard work is rewarded” has collapsed among those born in the 1980s and 1990s.

China’s problem is not that married couples are having fewer children. It is that fewer people are choosing to marry in the first place.

With Beijing having accelerated family-support policies and childcare subsidies, analysts warn that structural reforms are vital to arrest the deepening slide.

For the first time in more than three decades, condoms will no longer enjoy VAT-exempt status in China as a new law seeks to boost birth rates. The legislation, approved in late December 2024, sets ...