Japan’s demographic crisis is deepening faster than expected, with the number of births this year on track to fall below even the government’s most pessimistic projections. According to analysis reported by the
Under the updated reproductive health directives, Russian doctors are instructed to ask women how many children they plan to have. Those who indicate they do not intend to give birth are now
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More than 60% of unmarried adults under the age of 30 in Japan say they do not want children, citing economic burdens and career disruption, according to a recent survey conducted by
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Sri Lanka’s rapidly changing population structure requires a strengthened and more responsive health management system, according to Professor Manori Weeratunga, President of the Sri Lanka Society of Population Scientists. Professor Weeratunga made
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A county mayor in South Korea has sparked widespread controversy after suggesting that women from Sri Lanka and Vietnam be “imported” as brides to address population decline in rural areas, prompting criticism
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Official data released on Monday confirmed that China’s population fell for the fourth consecutive year in 2025, underscoring a deepening demographic crisis that experts warn will accelerate in the coming decades. The
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China is placing population policy at the heart of its economic strategy as it prepares to report a fourth consecutive annual population decline, with official data due on January 19 expected to
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Japan’s demographic crisis is deepening faster than expected, with the number of births this year on track to fall below even the government’s most pessimistic projections. According to analysis reported by the
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Countries must take urgent action to prevent slowing population growth from undermining their long-term economic prospects, the European Bank for Reconstruction and Development (EBRD) said in its annual report on Tuesday. The
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China is launching an array of financial incentives—including wedding subsidies, child-rearing benefits and home-purchase grants—in an escalating attempt to reverse the country’s steep population decline, according to Times UK. The dramatic policy
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In 1970, the average woman in Mexico could expect to have seven children. By 2014, that figure had dropped to around two. Today, it stands at just 1.6 — a number far
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