China’s birth rate has hit a historic low – deepening fears of a major economic shock in the decades to come as the country’s ...

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China’s demographic trajectory is changing fast. With lower birth rates, a rapidly aging society, and a shrinking working-age population, the ...

India’s choice to avoid coercion and respect women’s reproductive freedom not only preserves social stability but also leverages the natural benefits of an educated population ...

China’s problem is not that married couples are having fewer children. It is that fewer people are choosing to marry in the first place.

BEIJING (AP) — From ancient times until today, an enormous population has been a foundational way for China to project its strength. But anxiety about managing so many mouths has always loomed. “China ...

After a brief rebound, marriages will resume their downward path, owing to the steady decline in China’s childbearing-age ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. BANGKOK — How do you persuade a population to have more babies after generations of limiting families to just one? A decade after ...

China is experiencing rapid population aging and a declining workforce, posing significant economic and fiscal challenges, ...

With Beijing having accelerated family-support policies and childcare subsidies, analysts warn that structural reforms are vital to arrest the deepening slide.

(Bloomberg Businessweek) -- On an autumn afternoon in Panzhihua, a steel city tucked into the mountains of southwest China, seven couples stood in front of a crowd of onlookers. They were there to ...

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 ...