An elementary school in Yimianpo is now a storage yard. The number of children in the town has dropped by half and there are ...

Japan is decades ahead of the rest of the world with an aging and shrinking population. There are some who claim we don't ...

China’s extreme automation is a strength, but it’s also a response to the country’s most fundamental weakness: the impending ...

The decline in China's population last year is likely to have exceeded the historic fall recorded in 2022, but the overall downward trend in the next three decades will be mild, a senior demographer ...

China’s population continued to decline last year—though births edged up for the first time in eight years—falling for a third straight year as deaths outpaced births. China had seen birth numbers ...

Deteriorating demographics and an intense investment-led price war have led to the world’s second-largest economy battling ...

"In the next 50 years, China will have to face three population 'peaks,'" said Hu Angang, a professor at Qinghua University. More than 100 million rural Chinese have moved to the cities seeking work, ...

China's population contracted for the third year in a row in 2024 despite an uptick in births. Newsweek reached out to the Chinese Foreign Ministry by email with a request for comment. Xi Jinping's ...