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 ...

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 ...

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

China said on Friday its population fell for the third year running in 2024, extending a downward streak after more than six decades of growth as the country faces a rapidly ageing population and ...

You're currently following this author! Want to unfollow? Unsubscribe via the link in your email. Follow Jennifer Sor Every time Jennifer publishes a story, you’ll get an alert straight to your inbox!

A dramatic shift in China’s population policy is making global headlines. Beijing has decided to tax condoms, ending a ...

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 ...

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

Chinese workers may soon have to work just a little bit longer. In late July 2024, China’s ruling Communist Party adopted a resolution that would see the country’s statutory retirement age gradually ...

China will impose a 13% tax on condoms and other contraceptives starting next year, ending a three-decade tax-exemption policy as the country struggles with a severe population decline.