China's birth rate fell to a record low last year despite attempts to boost it

Despite government efforts to boost fertility, China's birth rate fell to a record low in 2025.

Analysis: China's birth-rate struggles underscore its millennia-long effort to manage 'the masses'

Birth rate numbers released Monday, the lowest since Mao's Communists established the People's Republic in 1949, are the ...

China's population falls again as births drop to lowest rate since 1949 communist revolution

How do you persuade a population to have more babies after generations of limiting families to just one? A decade after ...

To sustain prosperity as its population shrinks, China will have to invest big at home

Exports played an outsized role in delivering this headline growth. Despite a simmering trade war with the United States, ...