China's low birth rate and aging population are ending any hopes Beijing had of overtaking the U.S. as an economic giant.

China's population fell in 2024 for the third straight year. Bloomberg Intelligence analyst Ada Li speaks with John Lee and ...

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

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

The European Parliament has condemned Turkish legal action against mayors from opposition parties, and called for municipal officials who have been detained in recent weeks to be released, acquitted ...

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.

In 2015, China announced an end to its decades-long one-child policy, allowing couples to have two children, then increased that to three children in 2021 – but both marriage and birth rates ...