Two-thirds of Japanese companies are experiencing a serious business impact from a shortage of workers, a Reuters survey ...

China's development model is at a crossroads, with a choice between much higher spending on pensions and healthcare or ...

The fall came despite a slight rise in births last year, the first increase since 2016. State efforts to cajole women to have ...

China's population fell for a third consecutive year in 2024, with the number of deaths outpacing a slight increase in births ...

That would mean a country suffering from the particular malaise that’s afflicted Japan, Norway, the U.K. and elsewhere: an aging population with a dwindling worker base, essentially an economic ...

China said on Friday its population fell for the third year running in 2024, extending a downward streak after more than six ...

Population decline is likely to continue due to gloomy economic prospects for young people ... overall population contraction, and rapid ageing remain unchanged.” He Yafu, an independent ...

Population decline is likely to continue due to gloomy economic prospects for young people ... overall population contraction, and rapid ageing remain unchanged.” He Yafu, an independent ...

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China said Friday that its population fell for the third straight year in 2024, falling by almost 1.4 million to 1.408 ...

Major economies are heading toward a "population collapse" by 2100 because of falling fertility rates, new research has found. A report by the McKinsey Global Institute (MGI) on Wednesday, warns the ...