China's long-anticipated demographic crisis has arrived earlier than expected. On Tuesday, the government posted negative population growth for the first time in 61 years. The birth rate is declining ...

BEIJING (AP) — China's population shrank for the first time in decades last year as its birthrate plunged, official figures showed Tuesday, adding to pressure on leaders to keep the economy growing ...

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Earth's population reached a new record in November 2022 when it became home to 8 billion people. The United Nations has predicted that by 2037, Earth's population will have reached 9 billion people.

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 ...

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 ...

HONG KONG, Jan 17 (Reuters) - China's population fell for a second consecutive year in 2023, as a record low birth rate and a wave of COVID-19 deaths when strict lockdowns ended accelerated a downturn ...

China's economy grew by 5.2% in 2023, overcoming earlier challenges and surpassing the 3% growth of 2022. The population of China declined by 2 million, continuing the downward trend from the previous ...

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 ...

For decades, China has tried to rein in its population growth, allowing families to have only one child. Now, as it faces a decline, Beijing is trying to reverse what appears as an almost inevitable ...