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

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Long seen in the West as a byword for the Chinese Communist Party’s heavy-handedness, the one-child policy became a trope for Chinese authoritarianism. While the policy was officially scrapped in 2015 ...

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 ...

Deteriorating demographics and an intense investment-led price war have led to the world’s second-largest economy battling ...

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China, the world’s second-largest economy, is facing a demographics crisis. Its population fell in 2024 for the third straight year and is projected to halve by the end of the century, while marriages ...

"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, ...

Blog posts represent the views of CFR fellows and staff and not those of CFR, which takes no institutional positions. Within two decades, China’s retirement-age population is projected to surpass the ...