The survey collected detailed information on education, family acceptance, employment, income levels, housing, land ownership ...

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China's one-child policy led to harsh measures like forced abortions and sterilizations. Experts now question its necessity.

Despite government efforts to boost fertility, China's birth rate fell to a record low in 2025.

Official figures revealed that the world's second-most populous nation shrank in 2025, with the total population to ...

Birth rate numbers released Monday, the lowest since Mao's Communists established the People's Republic in 1949, are the ...

Welkin Lei has been doing some paper-napkin calculations in his spare time. As the 30-year-old from Beijing and his wife consider whether to have a second child, they face a question of resources.

BEIJING, Dec 25 (Reuters) - The death of a former head of China's one-child policy has been met not by tributes but by castigation of the abandoned policy on social media this week. State media ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. FILE PHOTO: Peng Peiyun (C), former State Councillor, claps at the second Asian Women's Forum in Beijing, June 23, 2005.

Which U.S. states have the largest Hispanic populations—and which barely have any at all? In this video, we rank all 50 states from lowest to highest Hispanic population, using real population numbers ...

People are having fewer children all over the world, affecting separate regions in different ways. Newsweek has mapped out which countries have the lowest and highest fertility rates to break down ...

Professor of International Child Protection Research and Director of Data at the Childlight Global Child Safety Institute, University of Edinburgh Around 5 million children across western Europe ...