China's birth rate has dropped to its lowest level since official records began in 1949— Newsweek has broken down how this compares with other parts of the globe. Last year, China recorded 7.92 million births , according to new data from the country’s National Statistics Bureau released on Monday. Countries all over the world are seeing birth and fertility rates fall, but China remains an outlier as having one of the lowest on the planet. Its 2025 projected fertility rate, the average number of