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.

which is now facing both an aging population and an emerging shortage of working age people. China’s population stood at 1.408 billion at the end of 2024, a decline of 1.39 million from the ...

which is now facing both an aging population and an emerging shortage of working age people. China's population stood at 1.408 billion at the end of 2024, a decline of 1.39 million from the ...

Additionally, an expanding elderly population would pile more pressure on the underfunded pension system. Last year, China said it would gradually raise the retirement age for the first time since ...

The latest population decline widens China’s gap with India, which overtook it ... Last year, China said it would gradually raise the retirement age for the first time since 1978, despite ...

or cabinet rallied local governments to direct resources towards fixing China's population crisis and spread respect for childbearing and marriages "at the right age". The line chart shows the ...

China’s population continued to decline last year—though births edged up for the first time in eight years—falling for a third straight year as deaths outpaced births. China had seen birth ...

China spent 7.2% of its economic output on healthcare in 2023, the National Health Commission says. That compares with ...

By the time the nephew had his second cardiac arrest last year, at age 53 ... The dot plot shows the gap in access for rural and urban communities in China for select healthcare infrastructure ...

rallied local governments to direct resources towards fixing China’s population crisis and to spread respect for childbearing and marriages “at the right age”. The number of Chinese women of ...

By Alexandra Stevenson and Zixu Wang Reporting from Hong Kong To get its citizens to have more children and stop its population from shrinking, China has tried it all, even declaring having babies ...