Rural China, where the preference for male offspring was especially ... More disturbing for the government was the drastically falling birthrate, with China’s total population dropping for the first ...

Rural China, where the preference for male offspring ... with China’s total population dropping for the first time in decades in 2022 and China being narrowly overtaken by India as the world ...

Critics say that for China to choose urban and industrial investment over welfare programmes for its low-income rural ...

HONG KONG--China’s population fell for a third consecutive ... large numbers of Chinese people have moved from rural farms to cities, where having children is more expensive.

Rural China, where the preference for male offspring ... was the drastically falling birthrate, with China's total population dropping for the first time in decades in 2023 and China being ...

Rural China, where the preference for male offspring ... with China’s total population dropping for the first time in decades in 2022 and China being narrowly overtaken by India as the world ...

China’s population fell for a third consecutive year last year, with the number of deaths outpacing a slight increase in births, and experts cautioning that the trend would accelerate in the coming ...

China's total number of births was 9.54 million ... people living in urban areas to 943.3 million in total, while its rural population fell 12.22 million to 464.78 million.

BEIJING – China’s population fell for a third consecutive ... living in urban areas to 943.3 million in total, while its rural population fell by 12.22 million to 464.78 million.