For the third consecutive year, China’s population has declined. To revive the country’s birth rate, authorities are relying ...

The U.S. Black population is young. The median age of Black people in 2023 was 32.6 years, about six years younger than the U.S. population’s median age of 38.2. Roughly 30% of the entire Black ...

The Black population of the U.S. is relatively young. In 2023, the median age of Black Americans was 32.6 years, meaning half of the nation’s Black population was younger than that and half was older.

Researchers wrote: "Falling fertility rates shift the demographic balance toward youth scarcity and more older people, who are dependent on a shrinking working-age population. Longer life spans ...

Her cottage survived but Garrison remains part of Los Angeles' homeless population, which numbers around 75,000. The depth of the wildfire destruction is likely to increase that number.

Providers are calling for a better capital works program for regional aged care homes to increase their capacity to care for a growing ageing population. Australia's ageing boomers, a nursing ...

A rapidly aging population, declining workforce, lack of consumer markets and migration abroad are putting the system under severe pressure. While spending on the military and flashy ...

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 ...

China's population fell by 1.39 million in 2024 One-child policy led to skewed sex ratios and aging population Rising living costs attributed as major cause of falling birth rates in East Asia China’s ...

Copyright 2025 The Associated Press. All Rights Reserved. A senior woman waits for customers at a market in Beijing, Thursday, Jan. 16, 2025. (AP Photo/Aaron Favila ...

And yet, for the third year in a row, its population got smaller. Not even a surprise uptick in the number of babies born, a first in seven years, could reverse the course of an aging and ...

China ended its strict "one-child policy", imposed in the 1980s over overpopulation fears ... uptick is unlikely to last, as the population of childbearing-age women is projected to decline ...