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

China is experiencing unprecedented, and probably irreversible, population decline that will hamper its economic growth and ...

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

Family size around the world is dropping. That choice by couples is triggering a population shift that's sending shock waves ...

Chinas economy is grappling with intensifying challenges as mounting debt, persistent deflation, and an aging population ...

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

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 ...

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

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 ...

China is offering couples a subsidy to have children. The country’s government will pay $500 per year until the child is three years old. The move comes as concerns about China’s birth rate grow. Some ...

China will offer parents an annual childcare subsidy of 3,600 yuan (£376) in an effort to arrest the country’s declining birth rate. The scheme, announced on Monday, will cover all children under ...