BEIJING — China’s population dropped in 2023 by 2 million people — the second consecutive annual drop as births fell and deaths increased after the lifting of COVID-19 restrictions, the government ...

Guest Contributors Tahina Montoya is a defense and policy researcher at RAND, and Kelly Atkinson is a political scientist at RAND.

The Chinese Communist Party (CCP) has created an economic model that is unsustainable. Official corruption and mismanagement of the economy, the crushing of creativity and innovation in the name of ...

This is the first decline in the country’s population since 1961, the year of China’s Great Famine, Reuters reported. The population in 2022 sat at 1.41175 billion, a drastic fall from the population ...

BEIJING >> China’s population dropped by 2 million people in 2023 in the second straight annual drop as births fell and deaths jumped after the lifting of COVID-19 restrictions, the government said ...

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BEIJING — For seven decades, China’s Communist Party has ruled the world’s most populous country. As the nation’s population crests and begins to shrink, experts say, it will face challenges as varied ...

Demographer Yi Fuxian says China has been overstating its population for about three decades and its current population is 1.28 billion instead of 1.41 billion. Japan and Mexico each have a population ...

China's birthrate has declined for the first time in decades, China's National Bureau of Statistics reported Tuesday, a shift that experts say could influence the global economy. The world's most ...

The news that China’s population shrank in 2022 caused a sensation. Despite it being a relatively modest drop of around 850,000 (or a loss of 0.6 per thousand), many articles not only expressed shock, ...