The number of births fell to the lowest level in decades.

China's birth rates sunk to a record low in 2025, despite the government rolling out a spate of incentives to boost it, as the country's population fell for the fourth straight year. Government data on Monday showed that the country's birth rate fell to 5.

Births in China fell to a new historic low in 2025, according to official data released on Monday. The national statistics bureau reported 9.02 million newborns, equal to 6.39 births per 1,000 people—a little over half the 11.

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, authorities are pushing a range of ideas and policies to try and encourage more births — tactics that range from cash subsidies to taxing condoms to eliminating a tax on

How do you convince a population to have more babies after generations of a policy that limited families to just one? A decade after ending China's longtime, one-child policy, authorities are pushing a whole range of ideas and policies to try and encourage more births,

For the fourth year in a row China’s birth rate shrank. 2025 was the lowest birth rate on record for the world’s second largest economy, CNN’s international correspondent Mike Valerio breaks down the impact it will have.

China's population dropped for a fourth straight year in 2025, according to statistics released Monday that show a population of 1.405 billion people.

China’s total population fell to 1.405 billion at the end of 2025, down from 1.408 billion recorded in 2024, according to the National Bureau of Statistics. New births in the country fell to 7.92 million,