From the cost of childcare to the housing crisis, there’s no shortage of explanations for the dramatic global fall in the number of babies being born. These analyses, though, are all missing something ...
The number of births in Japan fell for the 10th straight year in 2025, official data showed on Thursday, highlighting the ...
Couples who work from home at least one day a week are having more children and planning larger families, according to a ...
Japan recorded a decline in births for the 10th consecutive year in 2025, official data showed Thursday, highlighting growing ...
Deputy Prime Minister Gan Kim Yong said that without concerted action, the country’s citizen population will start to shrink by the early 2040s.
The country reported a decline in births for the 10th consecutive year, but an increase in marriages.
“This finding came as a surprise to much of the demographic community,” said paper author and demographer Guillaume Marois.
In their piece, published in Nature Human Behaviour, IIASA Distinguished Emeritus Research Scholar Wolfgang Lutz and IIASA Senior Researcher Guillaume Marois, who is also an associate professor at the ...
TOKYO: The number of births in Japan fell for the tenth straight year in 2025, official data showed on Thursday (Feb 26), ...
In a new commentary, two deeply rooted assumptions in global demographic debates are challenged: that fertility will rebound as societies develop, and that “replacement-level fertility” is an ideal to ...
Singapore’s total fertility rate fell to 0.87 in 2025, marking a record low that a top official warned could profoundly reshape the city-state’s society and economy.
The number of births in the country fell for the 10th straight year last year, official data showed, highlighting the challenges for Prime Minister Sanae Takaichi.
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