Demographers estimate population data on Jan. 17 to show the number of new births in 2023 falling below the 9.56 million in 2022 as long-standing issues such as gender inequality and high ...

BEIJING, Oct 16 (Reuters) - China will enact policies to boost its birth rate, President Xi Jinping said on Sunday, as policymakers worry that an imminent decline in China's population could hurt ...

demographers warned. Last year, births in China rose for the first time since 2017, reaching 9.54 million, up from 9.02 million the previous year. Experts attributed the rebound to a rise in ...

By 2050 those figures are expected to reach 520m and 38%. Yet demographers describe China’s future as greyer—and smaller. While its older cohorts are growing, younger ones are not (see chart).

The global human population has been climbing for the past two centuries. But what is normal for all of us alive today — growing up while the world is growing rapidly — may be a blip in human ...

Births in the Northern Territory are lingering at rates similar to those of the early 1990s, according to the latest ...

Demographers said the rebound was due to a mix of factors, including the end of the COVID-19 pandemic and a culture-driven desire to tie the knot in an auspicious year. Last year, 7.68 million ...

On November 15, 2022, according to the demographers at the United Nations Population Division, the 8 billionth person on the planet was born. That 8 billion mark is an estimate — there is no ...

Rather than ask whether this might be due to poor recordkeeping, it seemed to Newman, demographers turned to surprising theories about the longevity of Black people. In a 2020 paper titled “Why ...

Demographers and economists celebrate the nation’s growing diversity as vital to a prosperous future. Other voices vilify racial change as a threat to the nation’s white heritage.

But there are some red flags ahead. They were spelled out in recently-released economic snapshots for each of the state’s 72 ...

In this world, demographers would be CEOs, employees reduced to a list of physical traits and meritocracy would become a naughty word. Slaughter is right to note the changing demographics in ...