The world's population is still growing, yet beneath these global statistics lies a different reality for dozens of countries. While regions like sub-Saharan Africa face booming populations, several ...

Each spring, as reliably as the changing of the seasons, Japan releases grim new population data that prompts handwringing in the press and vows by politicians to address the country’s demographic ...

To development economist Lant Pritchett, "population decline" is a mild way to describe what could be a global demographic crisis. "The reaction is often 'ho-hum' as the rates [of population decline] ...

Children attend a school ceremony in St. Petersburg. The Russian population is shrinking at an alarming rate, which could change the fabric of its society. The country recorded its lowest birth rate ...

A recent report highlighted a looming demographic crisis in the United States, as annual deaths are expected to exceed annual births by 2033. “Population growth in the U.S. is expected to stagnate ...

Plagued by shrinking birth rates and a rapidly aging population, tens of thousands of Chinese kindergartens have scaled back operations, closed down entirely or pivoted industries to survive. One ...

Japan's population crisis has intensified according to government statistics which reveal child births fell for the eighth consecutive year to a new low in 2023. Births were down by 5.1 percent to 758 ...

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