China's rollout of measures to boost its flagging birth rate remains patchy and inconsistent, a team of researchers has found ...

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

China has had a population decline for the second straight year. It’s a symptom of a much bigger issue. After seven years of a dropping birthrate and an increasing death rate, the nation is headed ...

China is facing demographic challenges, but official numbers may understate the issue. This video explores the truth behind birth rate data and what it means for the country’s economy and society.

Angela Roma on PexelsFor decades, China enforced one of the most controversial population control measures in modern history.

Improved healthcare outcomes are colliding with China’s three-year population decline, testing social safety nets despite ...

Blog posts represent the views of CFR fellows and staff and not those of CFR, which takes no institutional positions. Numbers of marriages in China dropped to 6.1 million in 2024, an exceptionally ...

China's government is imposing a value-added tax (VAT) on contraception as part of a policy to reverse the country's ...

China said Friday it would gradually raise its statutory retirement age, as the country grapples with a looming demographic crisis and an ageing population. Hundreds of millions of people in China are ...

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China’s rapidly aging population – now over 310 million people aged 60 and older – is transforming the country’s economic ...

High up Shenzhen’s Ping An Finance Center—the world’s fifth-tallest skyscraper—is a modest one-bedroom demo apartment. It’s well-furnished, smartly designed, and wouldn’t be out of place in one of ...