Countries all over the world are seeing birth and fertility rates fall, but China remains an outlier as having one of the ...

Government data on Monday showed that the country's birth rate fell to 5.63 per 1,000 people – a record low since the ...

This is an audio transcript of the FT News Briefing podcast episode: ‘China’s birth rate tumbles to historic lows’ ...

China’s birth rate has fallen to its lowest level since the Communist Party took power in 1949, according to recent ...

For the fourth year in a row China’s birth rate shrank. 2025 was the lowest birth rate on record for the world’s second ...

Birth rate numbers released Monday, the lowest since Mao's Communists established the People's Republic in 1949, are the ...

China has recorded its lowest number of births in more than 75 years, despite numerous efforts by the government to boost ...

China’s infamous one-child policy, which officially ended in 2015, is widely considered to be one of the main contributors to ...

Official figures released this week show China’s population now stands at 1.404 billion, a drop of three million compared to ...

China’s population crisis deepened in 2025 as births fell to a historic low, highlighting the limits of Beijing’s efforts to ...

BIRTH rates fell last year to its lowest level on record, official data showed, as its population shrank for a fourth year ...