Countries with the world’s lowest birth rates
Hong Kong has the lowest birth rate in the world and the reasons for this are high living costs, limited space, intense work ...
Why China's Birth Rate Plans Aren't Working
Beijing is neglecting the "short boards" of its demographic barrel and following in the failed footsteps of Japan, one ...
What Britain’s collapsing birth rate means for grandparents
The happiest years of an adult’s life do not occur during the formative period spent at university, when someone finds their ...
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Russia bans 'child-free propaganda' to try to boost birth rate
The number of deaths jumped by 49,000. However, immigration jumped by 20%. Estimates in the CIA's World Factbook put Russia ...
China Set To Lose Over 50 Million People in Population Crisis
Plummeting birth and marriage rates and a rising proportion of elderly are long-term concerns for the country with the ...
How Russia Plans To Boost Birth Rate With 'Ministry Of Sex'
Russia is considering establishing a "Ministry of Sex" in its latest move to tackle the country's declining birth rate.
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An aging and shrinking population
As recently as a decade ago, one of the major concerns of the world was about overpopulation. The few people predicting a coming age of depopulation or an age of population decline were not taken ...
High rates of preterm birth and infant deaths get the US another D+ grade: ‘It’s a travesty’
Being rushed to a hospital nearly two hours away, in the middle of a dangerous spring storm – with fear in her heart and ...
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Japanese, SKoreans at bottom of global love life poll
Japanese people are the least satisfied with their sex and romantic lives, closely followed by South Koreans, a global survey ...
Russia bans ‘child-free propaganda’ to try to boost country’s birth rate
Legislation would ban materials online, in the media and in ads that are deemed to portray a child-free lifestyle as ...