China is set to lose a population the size of California in 10 years

China’s population is projected to fall by more than California’s current population in the next 10 years—and that is only ...
Los Angeles Times

China’s population falls for a second year in a row as COVID restrictions end

BEIJING — China’s population dropped in 2023 by 2 million people — the second consecutive annual drop as births fell and deaths increased after the lifting of COVID-19 restrictions, the government ...
Washington Examiner

China’s population falls for the first time in 60 years

This is the first decline in the country’s population since 1961, the year of China’s Great Famine, Reuters reported. The population in 2022 sat at 1.41175 billion, a drastic fall from the population ...
Council on Foreign Relations

Gendered Legacies of Control: How China’s Population Policies Reshaped Women’s Lives

Guest Contributors Tahina Montoya is a defense and policy researcher at RAND, and Kelly Atkinson is a political scientist at RAND.
The Diplomat

China Is Far From Alone in Experiencing Population Decline

The news that China’s population shrank in 2022 caused a sensation. Despite it being a relatively modest drop of around 850,000 (or a loss of 0.6 per thousand), many articles not only expressed shock, ...
Los Angeles Times

Threats and advantages seen in China’s shrinking population

BEIJING — For seven decades, China’s Communist Party has ruled the world’s most populous country. As the nation’s population crests and begins to shrink, experts say, it will face challenges as varied ...