Key facts about China’s declining population
China has had the world’s largest population since at least 1950 but is now projected to experience an absolute decline as early as 2023.
Numbers, Facts and Trends Shaping Your World
The vast majority of Chinese Muslim adults come from 10 ethnic minority groups that traditionally practice Islam, the two largest being the Hui people and the Uyghur people. Most of China’s Muslims live in the country’s northwestern region, particularly in the areas of Gansu, Qinghai, Ningxia and Xinjiang. Because there is heavy overlap between religion […]
While the nation’s economy has been rocked by banking turmoil and stock market fluctuations in recent weeks, the public’s views of the economy are similar to where they stood in January. Just 19% of U.S. adults rate current economic conditions as excellent or good, while 46% say conditions are only fair and 35% rate the […]