According to the latest China Census Yearbook, the average age of first marriages in the country in 2020 was 28.6, nearly four years older than in 2010. Ye Liu, a senior lecturer at the Lau China ...

The trend among Chinese women of postponing or eschewing marriage will undermine Beijing’s efforts to boost falling birth rates, says Yi Fuxian of the University of Wisconsin-Madison.

TAIPEI--China’s population fell last year for the third straight year, its government said Friday, pointing to further demographic challenges for the world’s second most populous nation ...

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The one-child policy has resulted in a population imbalance. 34.9 million more males than females (Source: National Bureau of Statistics of China, 2020). This is partly explained by Chinese ...

New marriages in China reportedly plummeted by one-fifth last year, implying that the official number of births will likely fall from 9.54 million in 2024 to 7.3- 7.8 million in 2025. Thus, while ...