The International Monetary Fund (IMF) offered a dismaying projection for Japan’s economy on Friday, projecting mediocre growth in the first half of 2026 that will cause Japan’s Gross Domestic Product (GDP) to fall behind India’s.
Japan’s recent elections highlighted a poignant issue facing almost every industrialized nation, from America to Asia: the Japanese do not want mass migration, but their own demographics are collapsing so quickly that they might not be able to resist importing the next generation of young workers.
China’s state-run Global Times on Monday reported that 25 provincial authorities are set to begin distributing “maternity allowances” to women on November 1.
Japan’s Ministry of Health, Labor, and Welfare reported on Sunday that a record 22,878 babies were born to foreign parents in 2024, accounting for over 3 percent of all newborns.
The United Nations Population Fund (UNFPA) on Tuesday released its annual “State of World Population Report.” According to the report, the world is experiencing a fertility crisis and most of the policies implemented to fight it are ineffective.
South Korean President Yoon Suk-yeol declared a “demographic national emergency” and promised to spare no effort in increasing birth rates.
A member of the influential Chinese People’s Political Consultative Conference suggests lifting all restrictions on family size.
China’s National Bureau of Statistics produced its data for 2023 on Wednesday, revealing the population fell for the second year in a row and fertility rates are stuck at record lows.
China’s current craze for apparel that makes young women look more appealing – and fertile – to potential suitors is taking a ribbing on social media from feminists, who think “good for marriage” fashion is just another transparent effort by the regime to arrest population decline.
The Chinese city of Xian on Tuesday observed the holiday of Qixi – essentially China’s Valentine’s Day – by peppering residents with text messages urging them to have more children to reverse the population crash initiated by the Communist Party’s brutal One Child Policy.
China’s state-run National Business Daily reported Tuesday the nationwide fertility rate dropped to 1.09, a shockingly low number.
During a portion of an interview with the Fox News Channel aired on Monday’s broadcast of “Hannity,” California Gov. Gavin Newsom (D) responded to California’s net population loss by stating that it was an anomaly, other states lost population, California
The communist Castro regime admitted this weekend that Cuba’s population is in steep decline, fueled by accelerated growth in the elderly population, low birth rates, and the biggest migrant crisis in the nation’s history.
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.
The World Health Organization estimated that a staggering one in six people around the globe experiences infertility during their lives.
The city’s Department of Public Health is looking to start the program to “help ease racial disparities in infant mortality rates.”
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.
Japanese Prime Minister Kishida Fumio told his parliament on Monday that reversing Japan’s demographic death spiral is a top priority for his administration.
The Democrat stronghold of California ranks second in the nation for outbound moves, according to a new Federal Reserve Bank of Chicago report.
The top cities that had the greatest population growth by percentage from 2020 to 2021 were in Texas, Arizona, Florida, Idaho, and Tennessee.
Democrat-run Chicago, Los Angeles, and New York City are leading the way in urban residential decline, U.S. Census Bureau population estimates released Thursday reveal.
Contrary to other billionaires like Bill Gates, Elon Musk has warned population decline will be the death of civilization.
California’s population declined by more than 182,000 people last year, marking the first time in the state’s history that it has experienced a year-over-year loss.
Japan’s child population reached an all-time low last month after almost five decades of consistent decline, Japanese government data released on Tuesday revealed.
Hong Kong’s population declined last year for the first time since 2003, the Hong Kong Census and Statistics Department said Thursday.
A University of Milano-Bicocca study has claimed that mass migration of asylum seekers could reverse population decline in some of the country’s rural areas and small towns.
A scientist studying population development in China revealed on Tuesday that the Communist Party “seriously overestimated” how many babies were born in 2019, a year whose official birthrate was the lowest in the history of the People’s Republic.
