Demographics - Page 3

A new study finds there’s a considerable impact of the level of education a woman’s own parents has on the total fertility rate.

The China Family Planning Association announced last week that it will launch 20 pilot programs in cities across China to “build a new-era marriage and childbearing culture,” as the state-run Global Times put it on Sunday. In other words, the regime in Beijing is once again looking for a way to hold off demographic collapse.

White British children could soon be a minority within the country’s elementary schools, one expert has said.

India is on track to become the world’s most populous nation as its young population soars, and will surpass China by mid-2023, according to data released by the United Nations on Wednesday.

Canadian PM Justin Trudeau’s government is expanding immigration, announcing refugees will be brought over to fill gaps in the labour market.

Politicians of South Asian Heritage seem to be having a moment in the British Isles, holding some of the most powerful political offices.

A study commissioned by the Club of Rome and published on Monday found that the world population is approaching its peak and will begin declining swiftly after the middle of the 21st Century, averting the “population bomb” scenario in which longer lifespans, more abundant food, and better medical treatments cause the human race to overwhelm the capacity of the Earth to sustain it.

China’s weekend session of the National People’s Congress (NPC) is scheduled to consider various emergency measures to address declining birth rates and a looming demographic crisis.

The Chinese People’s Political Consultative Conference (CPPCC), the advisory body that meets once a year in concert with the National People’s Congress (NPC) for the policymaking “Two Sessions,” is considering proposals that might turn around China’s accelerating demographic decline. 

The newly presented figures are from 2021 and therefore do not include the more than one million Ukrainians who came to Germany looking for shelter after Russia invaded their home country a year ago.

The state-backed British Broadcasting Corporation (BBC) has defended a one-sided article attacking Japan for refusing to embrace mass migration.

The Chinese government’s annual “two sessions” – simultaneous meetings of the National People’s Congress (NPC) and the Chinese People’s Political Consultative Conference (CPPCC) – are scheduled to begin on Saturday, March 4.

Asked about workers who don’t speak the language when they come to Germany, Chancellor Scholz said it should not be seen as a hurdle if people arrive in the country speaking English first and then acquire German later on.

Muhammad was the most popular baby name in the Irish city of Galway last year, the country’s government has claimed.

NICOSIA, Cyprus – A Cyprus court on Saturday ordered the detention for six days of a Syrian man suspected of illegally bringing 21 Syrian migrants to the east Mediterranean island nation aboard a boat.

President Saied has ordered officials to tackle illegal migration after alleging “a criminal plot” to “change Tunisia’s demographic make-up”.

Tunisian President Kais Saied has been criticised for stating illegal immigration is directed toward changing demographics.

As many as 20 per cent of German residents do not speak German exclusively while at home, with five per cent speaking no German at all. 

A record number of British adults are still living at home with their parents as younger generations put off marriage and raising children, the country’s official statistician revealed on Friday.

The German Federal Office for Migration and Refugees (BAMF) says the number of asylum applications in January 2023 has more than doubled compared to last year.

The top Chinese health official in charge of population monitoring on Friday called for “bold” action to reverse China’s population decline, specifically including programs to reduce the cost of childbirth so Chinese families will begin having more babies.

The leftist President of Ireland has attacked anti-mass migration protesters in the country, accusing them of “sowing hate”.

Ukrainian refugees displaced from their war-torn homeland have said that they feel scared in England as there are “too many Muslims”.

Japanese Prime Minister Kishida Fumio told his parliament on Monday that reversing Japan’s demographic death spiral is a top priority for his administration. 

A majority of British and European Union nationals want Europe to preserve its Christian culture and worry about illegal immigration, polling suggests.

France has published the number of births for 2022, reportedly the lowest since records began with the new state in 1946. 

Canada’s Immigration Minister Sean Fraser, a member of the Liberal government of Prime Minister Justin Trudeau, has called for even more immigration to Canada despite 2022 seeing a record influx.

A group of people in the Canadian French-speaking province of Quebec have initiated a private criminal prosecution against Prime Minister Justin Trudeau over illegal border crossings.

BRUSSELS (AP) – The number of attempts by migrants to enter the European Union without authorization reached around 330,000 last year, the highest number since 2016, the EU’s border and coast guard agency said Friday.

The unilateral decision by the Home Office to open up a migrant centre in a hotel in a sleepy English village has been met with disbelief and outrage among the residents, who expressed fear over the prospect of hosting hundreds of asylum seekers.

Finland experienced a mini baby boom at the start of the coronavirus pandemic, but new statistics reveal that 2022 may have seen a record-low number of births in the EU country. Finland saw a small baby boom in the first

More people died in The Netherlands than were born in 2022, according to the nation’s official statistician revealed this week.

Pope Benedict XVI warned in a 2006 book that “Western self-hatred” had become “pathological”, and that the decline of marriage, the family, and depopulation could be the death knell for European identity. 

Hungary has exempted young mothers from paying income tax as it continues to expand the package of pro-family formation policies it has introduced as an alternative to mass migration.

Conor McGregor has voiced his support for Dublin locals who are currently protesting Ireland’s mass migration policies.

Rather than implementing policies to foster families, the UK is considering creating a “rural visa” to incentivise migration to rural areas.