Birth control: China slaps new taxes on condoms, contraceptives in effort to boost birth rates

It’s a taxing time for sweethearts in China. After a 30-year exemption, the country is slapping a 13% sales tax on condoms, ...

Why China is imposing 13% tax on condoms after years of exemption | Explained

As China's number of deaths has been higher than the births, India overtook as the world’s most populous country in 2023 ...

China’s population fix: 13% tax on condoms, contraceptives from January 1 to encourage more births

China will impose a 13% sales tax on condoms and birth control from January 1, 2026, ending a 30-year exemption as part of ...
Yahoo

China's population falls for a third straight year, posing challenges for its government and economy

TAIPEI, Taiwan (AP) — 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, ...
The New York Times

China’s Population Declines for 3rd Straight Year

The fall came despite a slight rise in births last year, the first increase since 2016. State efforts to cajole women to have children have met resistance. By Alexandra Stevenson and Zixu Wang ...
The Conversation

Raising the retirement age won’t defuse China’s demographic time bomb – but mass immigration might

Texas A&M University provides funding as a founding partner of The Conversation US. Chinese workers may soon have to work just a little bit longer. In late July 2024, China’s ruling Communist Party ...