CHINA’S population shrank for the third straight year in 2024, even though births rose slightly, underscoring a persistent long-term risk for the economy. Read more at The Business Times.

Official data also showed that China has entered a moderately aging society. There were 297 million people aged 60 or above in the country at the end of 2023, accounting for 21.1 percent of the total ...

The South Asian nation is now approaching 1.45 billion people, according to United Nations’ estimates. Bloomberg Intelligence forecast that China’s population will shrink to 1.36 billion by ...

China's aging population will have a direct impact on its ability to compete with the US and other nations on the world stage, according to a report from consultancy firm Terry Group. The latest ...

China population declined for the third consecutive year in 2024 with government figures released January 17 showing a ...

China's low birth rate and aging population are ending any hopes Beijing had of overtaking the U.S. as an economic giant.

By 2100, India's population is projected to decline to just under 1.1 billion, a reduction of about 400 million. China's population, however, is expected to fall dramatically to 731.9 million-a ...

China had seen birth numbers plummet since 2017, the year after it ended the one-child policy, despite Beijing’s ...

accounting for 21.1 percent of the total population. According to projections, the number of people aged 60 or above in China will surpass 400 million around 2035, accounting for over 30 percent ...

China's one-child policy ... Among today's largest economies, only the US has a projection of positive population growth, though at very low levels. But the projected growth is due not to ...

The long-term outlook is even grimmer. The United Nations estimates China's population will shrink by 50 percent by the end of the century. The Shanghai Academy of Social Sciences earlier this ...