The country’s population fell for a third straight year as deaths outpaced births.

China’s one-child policy, which lasted from 1980 to 2015, significantly shaped the nation’s demographics. While it effectively curbed population growth—preventing an estimated 400 million ...

After nearly four decades of its one-child policy, designed to curb population growth and reform the country’s economy, China has fully removed all childrearing limits in recent years.

Marriages in China plummeted by a fifth last year, the biggest drop on record, despite manifold efforts by authorities to ...