Delegates at the ongoing Chinese parliamentary meetings have offered suggestions to help raise the fertility rate. Read more ...

All right. This is a mind-blowing story about numbers - population numbers. China still has the world's largest population after India, but it saw its birth rate last year drop to the lowest level in ...

China has introduced policies to boost its birthrate that so far haven't delivered a population rise. - Jade Gao/AFP/Getty Images China clocked its lowest birth rate on record in 2025 as its ...

The number of births in China, which has one of the world’s lowest fertility rates, fell by 17 percent in 2025.

Beijing (CNN) — China clocked its lowest birth rate on record in 2025 as its population shrank for the fourth year in a row, deepening a demographic challenge that could drag on the world’s ...