People are having fewer children worldwide, but the trend is particularly marked in countries like China and less so in ...

After zealously enforcing the one-child policy, the city of Tianmen has made boosting the birth rate a top priority, as ...

China’s extreme automation is a strength, but it’s also a response to the country’s most fundamental weakness: the impending ...

China’s long-term economic growth is at risk owing to a shrinking labor force and rapidly aging population, according to Oxford Economics. The country’s potential output growth could fall below 2% by ...

A total of 25 Chinese provinces will be distributing maternity leave payments directly to mothers by next month, as part of a broader effort to reverse the country’s flagging birth rate, officials ...

Across much of the world, people are having fewer children than ever before. A new visual from World Visualised, using World Bank data, shows a striking pattern: between 2000 and 2023, fertility rates ...

China's potential output growth could fall to half its 2020s level by mid-century, with a shrinking labor force becoming a structural drag on the world's second-largest economy, warns a new report.

Fertility rates have dropped sharply since 1990. On average, women today have one less child than 30 years ago. More than half of all countries are now below the replacement rate of 2.1 births per ...