China's population is shrinking, and the demographic shift will ultimately hurt its economy, shrink the labor force and put ...

which is now facing both an aging population and an emerging shortage of working age people. China’s population stood at 1.408 billion at the end of 2024, a decline of 1.39 million from the ...

SINGAPORE] As China confronts external geopolitical trade tensions, DBS economists have projected that the next 15 years will ...

A new initiative aims to boost the local economy by attracting elderly travellers to remote parts of the country.

In 1950, children aged 10 or younger accounted for the largest share of China’s population. This population pyramid is estimated to change shape dramatically by 2050. Sources: United Nations ...

Various types of intergenerational support was differentially associated with older adults’ satisfaction, with significant ...

A meeting Monday of the ruling party’s Politburo decided “China will introduce major policies and measures to actively deal with the aging population,” the Xinhua News Agency said.

Twenty people have been killed in a fire at a nursing home in north-east China, state media report. The blaze in Chengde city ...

CHINA is the most populous country and the shrinking of its population is inevitable. That means even the population-boosting policies to encourage more children does not seem to have worked so far.

Their ageing is just one of the many opportunities across China’s vast and gradually ... Weak birth rates have contributed to a shrinking human population in each of the past three years ...