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’s population of 1.4 billion people is the largest in the world, right? Not anymore. In 2023 India surpassed China as the most populous country. China’s population began shrinking in 2022, and ...

China's population of over 1.4 billion could drop by a precipitous 60 percent by the end of the century, according to a Chinese think tank. By 2100, the world's second-largest population could number ...

Editor’s note: This piece was updated to correct population estimates. We regret the error. This month, China’s government began a nationwide poll of 500,000 ...

Families in the U.S. and around the world are having fewer children as people make profoundly different decisions about their lives. NPR's series Population Shift: How Smaller Families Are Changing ...

Single and married women across China are receiving cold calls from local authorities encouraging them to step up and have more children. They are but one demographic targeted for mobilization by ...

HONG KONG, Jan 18 (Reuters) - China's ageing population threatens key Beijing policy goals for the coming decade of boosting domestic consumption and reining in ballooning debt, posing a severe ...