An Inconvenient Truth? China Omits Key Figures That May Have Highlighted Its Demographic Time Bomb from Official Statistics
A key data series on China’s fertility rate has been axed from the country’s latest statistical yearbook, depriving the public of crucial figures to judge the effectiveness of the country’s two-child policy.
More Babies in China Worth Celebrating—but Mind the Data
Official data shows women had the most children since 2000 in 2016
Grey Boom: Decades of Birth Controls Leave China with Distorted Demographics
By 2030, the country will count 143 million more people aged 60 and older, a two-thirds expansion over 2015.
My Secret Life as a Forbidden Second Child in China
The country's draconian birth control policies have lifted, but the millions of children born outside the system live on in the shadows.