According to China’s own numbers, the country’s birth rate hit 5.63 births per 1,000 people, a rate not seen since 1949. On the opposite side of the scale, China’s death rate hit 8.04 per people, which is up from 2024’s 7.76 deaths per 1000.
The death rate in 2025 exceeds the WORTS death rates during the pandemic years, with 2024 ALSO exceeding those numbers. One major factor pushing the death rate up is simply China’s aging population. Over 23% of Chinese citizens are over the age of 60. Remember, these are China’s own reported numbers. There is growing skepticism about the population size of China, as well as to the extent of the unexplained deaths that have been happening in China (none which can be fully substantiated).
China is facing a deepening demographic crisis as birth rates collapse and deaths continue to climb, pushing the country into its fourth straight year of population decline.
Just 7.9 million babies were born in China in 2025, the lowest number recorded in more than 70 years.
The figure represents a 17 percent drop from the previous year, when births totaled 9.5 million.
According to data from China’s National Bureau of Statistics, the country’s birth rate fell to 5.63 births per 1,000 people in 2025.
The rate is the lowest level since 1949, the year the Chinese Communist Party seized power.