China’s population is shrinking at a pace not seen in decades — a stark reversal for a country long defined by its sheer demographic scale. After losing its crown as the world’s most populous nation ...

BANGKOK (AP) — How do you persuade a population to have more babies after generations of limiting families to just one? A decade after ending China's longtime one-child policy, the country's ...

China will begin charging a 13% value-added tax on contraceptives starting Jan. 1 while exempting childcare services from the same tax, a move authorities say is part of a broader effort to boost ...

China hopes a series of recently introduced measures will start to affect the country's declining birth rate, which policymakers fear will be a long-term drag on the world's second-largest economy.

TAIPEI, Taiwan — China's population fell last year for the third straight year, its government said Friday, pointing to further demographic challenges for the world's second most populous nation, ...

China's population, reported to be 1.41 billion, will drop to 330 million by the end of the century, predicts Yi Fuxian of the University of Wisconsin-Madison. This startling conclusion is included in ...

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