BEIJING — China's once-a-decade census showed the population of the mainland was 1.41 billion people as of Nov. 1, 2020, marking the slowest growth rate since the 1950s. The average annual growth rate ...

Millions of census-takers began knocking on doors across China on Sunday for a once-a-decade head count of the world’s largest population that for the first time will use mobile apps to help crunch ...

BEIJING (Reuters) - China's once-a-decade census is expected to show a further fall in the percentage of young people in its fast-aging population as high living costs and an aversion to having ...

(Bloomberg) -- China's population shrank for the third straight year in 2024, even though births rose slightly, underscoring a persistent long-term risk for the economy. The total number of people in ...

China's population has shrunk for the second year in a row. The National Bureau of Statistics reports just 9.02 million births in 2023—only half as many as in 2017. Set alongside China's 11.1 million ...

China's population fell last year for the third straight year, its government said Friday, pointing to further demographic challenges for the world's second most populous nation, which is now facing ...

China has had population control policies, which are now resulting in a declining population rate. To tackle that, it has now come up with some out-of-the-box ideas. From taxing condoms to proposing a ...

“To be honest, it’s a blessing if China’s population starts decreasing. With the modernization of China’s economy advancing toward fully automated technologies, it means a bigger pie for a smaller ...

BEIJING, April 28 (Reuters) - China's population grew to 1.34 billion by 2010, according to census figures released on Thursday, up 5.9 percent from the 1.27 billion counted in the last census in 2000 ...