CHINA’S superpower status could soon crumble – with its population on track to plummet by over a billion in the coming decades. XI Jinping’s regime is set to be exposed on the ...

On Wednesday, the National Bureau of Statistics released data showing that the total population at the end of 2023 in the ...

For decades, China’s population story was one of rapid expansion. Even into the 2000s, the country was still adding millions of people a year—a demographic tail wind that helped power breakneck ...

Global economists and political commentators, wielding statistics as weapons to support their own hidden academic or ...

No longer the world’s most populous country − China now trails still-growing India − births are in line with much of the rest ...

China’s population stands at 1.404 billion today, down three million from the previous year. And the central government's challenge remains much as it has always been: to manage a citizenry that both ...

A smaller, older workforce and rising wages may accelerate the shift of labour-intensive manufacturing to countries such as ...

China is rapidly getting older. Three decades ago, only 5 percent of the population was over 65; today, 123 million people, or 9 percent of the population, are over this age. A report released by a ...

China’s population is projected to fall by more than California’s current population in the next 10 years—and that is only the start. U.N. estimates show the country could be down about 140 million by ...