China’s problem is not that married couples are having fewer children. It is that fewer people are choosing to marry in the first place.

TAIPEI, Taiwan (AP) — 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, ...

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 ...

China’s population rate declined again last year, as the country grapples with how to revive birth rates 10 years after ending its decadeslong one-child policy. China’s birth rate in 2025 stood at ...

TAIPEI, Taiwan — 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, ...