Improved living standards and the one-child policy have turned China’s population pyramid upside down. Already, 15 percent of Chinese are over 60.

The last time China is believed to have recorded a population decline was during the Great Leap Forward at the end of the 1950s — Mao Zedong's disastrous drive for collective farming and ...

China’s population stood at 1.408 billion at the end of 2024, a decline of 1.39 million from the previous year.

Improved living standards and the one-child policy have turned China’s population pyramid upside down. Already, 15 percent of Chinese are over 60.

China’s population shrank in 2022 for the first time since the Mao-era famine, pointing to a demographic crisis that will dominate the agenda of the country’s leaders in coming years.

China's population is shrinking. While the massive country is still home to 1.4 billion people — nearly one out of every five people on Earth — China's National Bureau of Statistics announced ...

World · Nothing is Foreign As China's population shrinks, many from its one-child generation push back against having kids China's one-child policy was in place from 1980 to 2015 ...

China’s population is forecast to peak at 1.45 billion as soon as 2027, then start a long decline. About one-third of the population will be over the age of 65 by 2050.

With the trend expected to continue, the U.N. estimates China’s population will fall from 1.41 billion to about 1.31 billion by 2050 and keep shrinking from there.

China’s fertility rate fell below replacement (2.1 children per woman) in 1991 and quickly fell further to 1.522 in 1998. After 1998, the data starts to look strange.