However, in the early 2010s, the Chinese birth rate saw a lot of ups and downs ... report an increase of dragon-related demand. This chart shows live births per 1,000 people in China (1980-2024).

Marriage rates in China continued to plummet last year, deepening the country’s demographic crisis and highlighting the public’s changing attitudes towards marriage, childbirth, family ...

Marriages in China plummeted by a fifth last year, the biggest drop on record, despite manifold efforts by authorities to ...

China recorded its lowest number of new marriages for four decades in 2024, in a sign that the country’s challenges with a declining birth rate and shrinking population are likely to deepen this ...

China has the second-biggest population in the world at 1.4 billion - one that is aging quickly. The birth rate fell for decades due to China's 1980-2015 one-child policy and rapid urbanisation.

Micah McCartney is a reporter for Newsweek based in Taipei, Taiwan. He covers U.S.-China relations, East Asian and Southeast Asian security issues, and cross-strait ties between China and Taiwan.

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