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China’s rollout of measures to boost its flagging birth rate remains patchy and inconsistent, a team of researchers has found. About two-thirds of the world’s population now lives in regions where the ...

BANGKOK (AP) — How do you persuade a population to have more babies after generations of limiting families to just one? A decade after ending China's longtime one-child policy, the country's ...

China is grappling with a persistent population decline, despite a decade of efforts to encourage more births following the abandonment of its stringent one-child policy. Authorities have introduced a ...

China's birthrate fell to a record low last year, with the number of births per 1,000 people dropping to 5.6. About 7.9 million babies were born last year, significantly fewer than 9.5 million the ...

Once the world's most populous nation, China is now among the many Asian countries struggling with anemic fertility rates. In an attempt to double the country's rate of 1.0 children per woman, Beijing ...

(THE CONVERSATION) Once the world’s most populous nation, China is now among the many Asian countries struggling with anemic fertility rates. In an attempt to double the country’s rate of 1.0 children ...