Ten years after China ended its one-child policy, the world’s second-largest economy is now grappling with one of the lowest ...

An elementary school in Yimianpo is now a storage yard. The number of children in the town has dropped by half and there are ...

Japan is decades ahead of the rest of the world with an aging and shrinking population. There are some who claim we don't ...

China’s extreme automation is a strength, but it’s also a response to the country’s most fundamental weakness: the impending ...

The decline in China's population last year is likely to have exceeded the historic fall recorded in 2022, but the overall downward trend in the next three decades will be mild, a senior demographer ...

Dongfeng Gu and colleagues review community based cohort studies in China, finding strategies to improve the quality and scale of these studies in China and beyond Community based cohort studies ...

"In the next 50 years, China will have to face three population 'peaks,'" said Hu Angang, a professor at Qinghua University. More than 100 million rural Chinese have moved to the cities seeking work, ...

The global economic system developed in an era of rapid population growth. With aging populations and people deciding to have smaller families, economists are raising concerns about future prosperity.

China’s central government introduced a childcare subsidy on July 28 that will provide families with 3,000 yuan (around $418) a year for each child under the age of three. The announcement came days ...

With 300 million seniors and a shrinking workforce, China’s “silver economy” is emerging as one of its most durable new ...

Blog posts represent the views of CFR fellows and staff and not those of CFR, which takes no institutional positions. Beijing is dramatically pushing eldercare robots as part of its national ...