Birth rates in China rose to their highest level since 2000 last year, despite a fall in the number of women of childbearing age, say officials. The increase follows the relaxation of China’s strict one-child policy a year ago. There were 17.86 million births in 2016, an 11.5% increase on 2015, according to National Health … Read more
It sounds like the plot of a mystery novel. A controversial one-child policy that resulted in as many as 60 million “missing girls” in China, the most populous country on Earth. But in a new study, researchers suggest that around 25 million of these girls aren’t actually missing, but went unreported at birth — only … Read more
Police in China have detained 75 people in connection with a widespread network that illegally determined the gender of unborn babies. The illegal service – aimed at expectant parents wanting male children – smuggled fetal blood samples to Hong Kong for gender testing, officials say. It operated across much of China and brought in $30m … Read more
By 2022, India’s population will have overtaken China’s to become the largest in the world, according to a United Nations report. As the world’s two most populous nations, China and India already have well over 1 billion people each. But while China’s population is forecast to level out in the 2020s at around 1.4 billion, India’s … Read more