BEIJING — China's once-a-decade census showed the population of the mainland was 1.41 billion people as of Nov. 1, 2020, marking the slowest growth rate since the 1950s. The average annual growth rate ...

Millions of census-takers began knocking on doors across China on Sunday for a once-a-decade head count of the world’s largest population that for the first time will use mobile apps to help crunch ...

BEIJING (Reuters) - China's once-a-decade census is expected to show a further fall in the percentage of young people in its fast-aging population as high living costs and an aversion to having ...

BEIJING - China's urban dwellers swelled to 665.6 million last year, more than twice the population of the United States, and the number of older people surged, according to figures from the country's ...

China has announced that in 2023 its population declined from 1.4118 to 1.4097 billion people. Forecasting by the UN suggests China’s population will dip to 1.313 billion by 2050 and then down to ...

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 ...

China’s population fell by 2 million people in 2023 in its second straight annual decrease, as births dropped for the seventh straight year and deaths jumped following the end of COVID-19 restrictions ...