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By Alexandra Stevenson and Zixu Wang Reporting from Hong Kong To get its citizens to have more children and stop its population from shrinking, China has tried it all, even declaring having babies ...

China’s population fell last year for the third straight year, its government said Friday, pointing to further demographic challenges for the world’s second most populous nation, which is now ...

Major economies are heading toward a "population collapse" by 2100 because of falling fertility rates, new research has found. A report by the McKinsey Global Institute (MGI) on Wednesday ...

President Trump’s promised crackdown on illegal immigration threatens deportation for millions of immigrants living in the U.S. without permission. How would that affect California and the Bay Area?

China’s population continued to decline last year—though births edged up for the first time in eight years—falling for a third straight year as deaths outpaced births. China had seen birth ...

Welcome to the world of population projections. Estimates from highly respected demographers suggest that the United States of the future might be less populous than that of the past. Those ...

Why is Christian Science in our name? Our name is about honesty. The Monitor is owned by The Christian Science Church, and we’ve always been transparent about that. The Church publishes the ...

But the Golden State’s share of the national total has been shrinking since 2019 as the population of immigrants living illegally in the U.S. has grown faster in the country’s other large-population ...

HONG KONG: China's population fell for a third consecutive year in 2024, with the number of deaths outpacing a slight increase in births, and experts cautioning that the downturn will worsen in ...

As California farmers wonder who will grow and harvest our food, falling birthrates are likely to soon force nations to compete for immigrants.