The Christian Science Monitor

A decade after lifting one-child policy, China struggles to boost population

Despite Beijing’s campaign to encourage couples to have more children, new data shows China’s population decline is ...

Peter Zeihan: Shrinking Population Puts a Time Limit on China's Economic Model

Geopolitical prognosticator Peter Zeihan tells Channel 4 News about his theory that China's demographic numbers are ...
The Print on MSN

What China’s falling population means for the country’s future

China recorded 7.93 million births in 2025, the lowest level since at least the founding of the People’s Republic of China in 1949.

China’s population shrinks for fourth consecutive year, intensifying fears about future

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 ...
Opinion

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

China’s economy met the government’s official growth target in 2025, with official figures showing real gross domestic product (GDP) expanded by 5%. Exports played an outsized role in delivering this ...
The Grand Junction Daily Sentinel

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

BEIJING — From ancient times until today, an enormous population has been a foundational way for China to project its strength. But anxiety about managing so many mouths has always loomed. “China has ...