Analysts predicted that if the current trend keeps up, the annual total fertility rate for 2024 could reach 0.74, exceeding last year’s rate of 0.72 ...
The national birth rate for 2022 fell to a record low, and the country’s worsening demographic crisis has far-reaching effects on economic growth. Deaths outnumbered births in China as its ...
The "rebound" in the number of births in certain areas, therefore, does not indicate a broader shift in the fertility rates at the national level. In demographic terms, a "rebound" refers to an ...