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Monday, March 16, 2026
TopicChina population

Topic: china population

What China’s falling population means for the country’s future

China recorded 7.93 million births in 2025, the lowest level since at least the founding of the People’s Republic of China in 1949.

Is India’s ‘growth story’ a sign of its strength or world’s weakness? China holds the answer

The 1949 revolution raised the education of the Chinese population, but the Indian labour force remains deeply under-educated. It's one factor why Indian growth is limited to islands of prosperity.

Why Xi wants Chinese women to foster ‘marriage & childbearing culture’ — population, economic decline

Speaking at 13th National Women’s Congress this week, Chinese president said, 'Doing a good job in women’s work... related to family harmony... national development and national progress'.

China begins national population change survey among 1.4 mn people amid declining birth rate concern

China expects survey to provide basis to monitor population developmental changes & for the govt and Communist Party to formulate economic, social development and population-related policies.

China’s biggest travel agency Trip.com Group to pay employees 1 billion yuan to have kids

The company, with 400 million users, said it would pay a parental cash subsidy of 10,000 yuan annually for five years for every child born to its employees worldwide.

India’s problem of plenty: Why the country needs to make use of its demographic dividend, and quickly

This dividend has been talked about more than it has been taken advantage of, which can be done by building human capabilities and putting them to productive use over next 2 decades.

‘Obnoxious, in bad taste’ — anger over Der Spiegel cartoon on India’s population overtaking China’s

Digital offshoot of German magazine Der Spiegel carried illustration on findings of UN report which said India is set to surpass China as world's most populous country by mid-2023.

India gets the ‘highest population’ tag. But its young can counter burden by being productive

As per UNFPA, India has beaten China in the population race to take the top spot in the world. But is it such a bad thing?

Beijing experiences first population decline since 2003, data shows

The death rate in the city of 21.84 million rose to 5.72 deaths per 1,000 people, while the birth rate fell to 5.67 births per 1,000 people, official statistics showed.

Concerned by shrinking population, China draws up over 20 proposals to boost birth rates

The proposals include subsidies for families raising their first child, expanding free public education & improving access to fertility treatments.

On Camera

India must allow citizens to invest beyond its borders. It’s risk management, not luxury

The financialisation of Indian household savings is one of the most important economic shifts of the past decade. But financialisation without international diversification creates fragile balance sheets.

Gulf conflict pushes Dubai diamond traders to eye Surat for rough stone auctions. But there are hurdles

Industry leaders say India’s complicated customs process and GST levies are deterrents for traders to come to Surat for auctions.

Supreme Leader Mojtaba, the man Iran must keep alive & the secret force ‘tasked with it’—all about NOPO

The Nirouyeh Vijeh Pasdaran Velayat, or NOPO, was the only force Ali Khamenei trusted.It was founded in 1991 and is more feared than the Revolutionary Guards.

Peaceful power transfers followed uprisings in India’s neighbourhood. It’s a sign of mature democracies

Rating democracies is a tricky business. I am only using the simple metric of who in the Indian subcontinent has had the most peaceful, stable, normal political transitions and continuity.