China’s population in 1980 was around 980 million. It was distributed in the classic pyramid shape of a growing population: wider at the younger ages and narrower at the older ages. (See the ...

Liu and her husband Deng Jie are members of China’s first generation of only children. Born in 1977 – only a year after the country instituted a one-child limit for most urban households ...

In 1950, children aged 10 or younger accounted for the largest share of China’s population. This population pyramid is estimated to change shape dramatically by 2050. Sources: United Nations ...

China confronts a lopsided demographic pyramid– characteristic of neighboring ... such a shortfall a decade later. Yi Fuxian, a population expert at the University of Wisconsin-Madison, warned ...

China’s “inverted pyramid” population structure is generating a profound impact on consumption and haunting its long-term growth potential, forcing economists to join demographers in calling ...

Below is a series of charts comparing the expected evolution of China's population pyramid to that of Japan and the U.S. Notice how China's population pyramid closely resembles that of Japan ...

Like much of the rest of the world, both China's and India's populations are getting older. One way to easily visualise this shift in demographics is to look at a country's population pyramid ...

As China's population pyramid becomes more top heavy and begins to age it will also mean the government needs to allocate more funds towards its health and social care systems. But, if handled ...

Raised without any siblings in the 1980s, China’s first batch of only children ... themselves on the wrong end of a top-heavy population pyramid. According to the National Bureau of Statistics ...

China's one-child policy has created a zero-sibling ... have found themselves on the wrong end of a top-heavy population pyramid. According to the National Bureau of Statistics, between 1982 ...