An elementary school in Yimianpo is now a storage yard. The number of children in the town has dropped by half and there are ...

China has had a population decline for the second straight year. It’s a symptom of a much bigger issue. After seven years of a dropping birthrate and an increasing death rate, the nation is headed ...

China’s population of 1.4 billion people is the largest in the world, right? Not anymore. In 2023 India surpassed China as the most populous country. China’s population began shrinking in 2022, and ...

Japan is decades ahead of the rest of the world with an aging and shrinking population. There are some who claim we don't ...

China's population of over 1.4 billion could drop by a precipitous 60 percent by the end of the century, according to a Chinese think tank. By 2100, the world's second-largest population could number ...

"In the next 50 years, China will have to face three population 'peaks,'" said Hu Angang, a professor at Qinghua University. More than 100 million rural Chinese have moved to the cities seeking work, ...

Editor’s note: This piece was updated to correct population estimates. We regret the error. This month, China’s government began a nationwide poll of 500,000 ...

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