16-03-29 Chinas working-age population saw its largest decline in modern Chinas history in 2015. By the end of 2015, defined as people between 16 to 60, the working-age population fell by a record 4.87 million, according to the National Bureau of Statistics....

16-03-10 More people live close to sea coast than earlier estimated, assess researchers in a new study. These people are the most vulnerable to the rise of the sea level as well as to the increased number of floods and intensified storms. By using recent inc...

16-03-02 China's eastern metropolitan of Shanghai saw its population shrink for the first time this century. 中国东部的大都市上海市的人口本世纪以来首次下降。 The city's permanent population, those who have lived there for six months or more, was 24.15 millio...

15-10-23 Hi, everybody. Thirty years ago, there were 500, 000 people behind bars in America. Today, there are 2. 2 million. The United States is home to 5 percent of the world's population, but 25 percent of the world's prisoners. Every year, we spend $80 bi...

15-09-05 The number of China's single men could exceed the entire population of Australia in five years' time, a Fujian government statistician has calculated. 一名福建政府统计人员估计，五年之内，中国单身男性数量将会超过整个澳大利亚人口。 There are likely to...

15-08-12 The world's population will increase from today's 7.3 billion people to 9.7 billion in 2050 and 11.2 billion at century's end, John R. Wilmoth, the director of the United Nations (UN) Population Division, told a session focused on demographic foreca...

15-08-03 The world's population will reach 9.7 billion by 2050 as India becomes the largest country, the UN has reported. 联合国近日发布报告称，到2050年，世界人口将达97亿，印度将成为全球第一人口大国。 In 35 years' time, there will be an extra 2.4 billion peo...

15-05-06 One day, King Hui of Liang met Mencius and said: What a mess the political states of our neighbouring countries is in! When they govern their states, they never think of the people. But when there is a flood in Nenei, I move the victims of the calam...

15-03-11 Beijing plans to control the size of its population and to have no more than 23 million people by 2020, said a national legislator and senior Beijing official on Friday. 全国人大代表、北京市常务副市长李士祥本周五透露，北京市将控制人口规模，到2020年...

15-02-25 Despite notable differences in appearance and governance, ancient human settlements function in much the same way as modern cities, according to new findings by researchers at the Santa Fe Institute and the University of Colorado Boulder. Previous r...