Population
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Baby boomtown: does Nagi hold the secret to repopulating Japan?
Fertility rate is more than twice the national average and nearly half of households have three or more childr…
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Indian ministers rebuke Der Spiegel for ‘racist’ cartoon mocking population size
German magazine accused of putting down India with caricature depicting population overtaking ChinaA cartoon i…
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Hong Kong: some schools face closure as birthrate and exodus take toll
Five schools preparing to close, according to local report, with others made to merge amid falling school enro…
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Life at 25 in India and China: money worries, hard work and no plans for family
No time to find a partner and struggles to make a living are a fact of life for two young men in the world’s t…
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India overtakes China to become world’s most populous country
Milestone marks the first time since 1950 that China has dropped to second place in global population ranksInd…
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The Observer view on the growing threat to democracy in India | Observer editorial
As his country overtakes China as the world’s most populous, Narendra Modi’s Hindu nationalist government is e…
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India’s population set to overtake China’s by June, UN figures show
UN population officials say it is not possible to pinpoint a date because of uncertainty about dataIndia is ex…
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Foreign maids and no military service: South Korea criticised over ideas to boost birthrate
Proposals have sparked accusations of modern-day slavery and gender inequality as urgency builds in Seoul’s ra…
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Beijing’s population falls for first time since 2003 as China battles low birthrate
Chinese capital saw more deaths than births in 2022 as high cost of living and education as well as legacy of …
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Free college and IVF help: China hunts for ways to raise its birthrate
High costs and career impacts remain barriers to having children for many women despite Beijing’s efforts to l…
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Chinese province ends ban on unmarried people having children
Sichuan measures aim to encourage more people to have children after population fell for first time in 60 year…
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Japan PM’s solution to dire birthrate has already been rejected by young
Fumio Kishida says lifting the birthrate ‘cannot wait’ yet policies stick to scripts that have so far failed t…
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Japan’s ageing population poses urgent risk to society, says PM
Fumio Kishida says country may be unable to function if birthrate does not riseJapan’s low birthrate and agein…
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Ageing planet: the new demographic timebomb
India is about to overtake China as the most populous country, but as birthrates fall we’re facing life in a g…
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‘The last generation’: the young Chinese people vowing not to have children
Negative population growth that arrived a decade before forecasts has been exacerbated by Covid and restrictiv…