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

Ten years after China ended its one-child policy, the world’s second-largest economy is now grappling with one of the lowest ...

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

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

Chinas economy is grappling with intensifying challenges as mounting debt, persistent deflation, and an aging population ...

The decline in China's population last year is likely to have exceeded the historic fall recorded in 2022, but the overall downward trend in the next three decades will be mild, a senior demographer ...

China's population, reported to be 1.41 billion, will drop to 330 million by the end of the century, predicts Yi Fuxian of ...

"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, ...

Note: “Chinese” includes those who identify as Chinese alone or in combination with other races, ethnicities or Asian origins. It does not include those who identify as Taiwanese alone. For a list of ...