China's shrinking population is estimated to dent home demand by 0.5 million units yearly in the 2020s, Goldman Sachs estimates.

But it does mean — as Wang Feng, a sociologist at the University of California Irvine who specializes in Chinese demographics, told the New York Times — “in the long run, ...

April 29, 2025: China is running out of people, new births and Chinese willing to get married. The population is shrinking and is now somewhere between 800 and 1200 million. The official claim is 1400 ...

China’s demographic grief has its roots some 35 years ago with President Deng Xiaoping’s decision to limit Chinese families to only one child.

China has long been over-reporting its population, over 100 million people fewer than officially claimed, a Chinese scientist told Newsweek, a claim met with strong resistance from demography circles.

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 ...

This is because demographic decline is a major challenge for Xi Jinping. He stated at the 19 th National Congress of the Chinese Communist Party in 2017 that "East, West, South, North and Center ...

Chinese birth rates, like those in most of the industrialized world, have plummeted. India surpasses China as the world's most populous country this year, according to United Nations estimates.

In truth, whether we’re talking GDP, economic growth, deflation or demographics, the official Chinese data is a tofu-dreg edifice that cannot mask China’s severe underlying societal problems.

Demography may not be destiny for some things like how people vote, but if enough factors align, it can determine the trajectory of a country’s future. For more than three and a half decades, China ...