China has removed tax exemptions on condoms and contraceptive pills, making them more expensive as part of a broader push to ...

For one thing, demographic decline will put increasing pressure on the country’s military. Today, with more than 2 million ...

It is exporting more to the world’s largest economy yet growing exports may not necessarily be helping the region Read more ...

Objective To analyse temporal trends of respiratory infectious diseases (RIDs) in Baiyin City from 2014 to 2023, aiming to explore the epidemiological patterns of these diseases (tuberculosis, scarlet ...

Blog posts represent the views of CFR fellows and staff and not those of CFR, which takes no institutional positions. The hukou system, established in the 1950s, required Chinese citizens to be ...

Families in the U.S. and around the world are having fewer children as people make profoundly different decisions about their lives. NPR's series Population Shift: How Smaller Families Are Changing ...

WASHINGTON - President Donald Trump’s call for a new census excluding undocumented immigrants has sparked confusion over timing and legality. Experts say the proposal faces insurmountable obstacles.

China's real estate sector has grappled with a deepening downturn for years. Now a shrinking population is casting another shadow over the stagnant property market. Stream NBC 5 for free, 24/7, ...

Buddhists are the only group in this report whose number declined worldwide between 2010 and 2020. This was due both to religious disaffiliation among Buddhists in East Asia and to a relatively low ...

China reported remarkable economic growth of 5.4 percent in the first quarter of 2025. Its growth is fascinating, since it far outstripped all large economies. It is also noteworthy because it comes ...