Numbers of marriages in China dropped to 6.1 million in 2024, an exceptionally steep fall of 20.5 percent from the prior year. The continuing decline in marriage rates likely presages yet further ...

But after more than three decades of a draconian one-child policy and a coming demographic plunge, China’s ambitious “hundred-year marathon” may never reach the finish line.

Yong Cai is Associate Professor of Sociology at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill. His research focuses on China's one-child policy and its implications for fertility and social policies ...

The demographic dynamics in India and China have major impacts on global economic development. Seeking to reassess the demographic race between the two countries with a focus on human capital and ...

China's share of the world's live births is expected to drop to around 3% in 2100 from 8% in 2021, according to Austin Schumacher, an assistant professor of health metrics sciences at the ...