China is experiencing unprecedented, and probably irreversible, population decline that will hamper its economic growth and ...

The situation is exacerbated by the high costs of raising children. According to the YuWa Institute of Demography, the ...

High up Shenzhen’s Ping An Finance Center—the world’s fifth-tallest skyscraper—is a modest one-bedroom demo apartment. It’s well-furnished, smartly designed, and wouldn’t be out of place in one of ...

In one generation, Chinese families have been told to bear fewer children, then one, then two and now three. But shifting ...

In 1949, the Chinese Communist Party devised an artful strategy to replace the United States as the world’s superpower by 2049. But after more than three decades of a draconian one-child policy and a ...

Sub-replacement fertility rates are altering demographic landscapes and could threaten economic growth in the coming decades.

In 2023, India surpassed China as the most populous country in the world, and is likely to retain this status for the remainder of this century. In a recent study, IIASA researchers explored whether ...

China's dwindling population is being offset by a significant increase in automation, with 300,000 new industrial robots ...

A month after Lauren mustered the courage to tell her mother she is lesbian, the 26-year-old Shanghai resident came out to a stranger who knocked on her door.