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.

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 in 2022 was 1.4118 billion — falling 850,000 since 2021. (Andy Wong/The Associated Press) ...

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 ...

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.

Even China's population of 1.4 billion would not be enough to fill all the empty apartments littered across the country, a former official said on Saturday, in a rare public critique of the ...

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.