Japan ’s already alarming demographic crisis has now hit a worrying new milestone. For the first time in the country’s ...
Japan logged only about 843,000 births in 2020, its lowest number since records began being kept on the subject in fiscal 1979, according to the internal affairs ministry. The ministry on Aug. 4 ...
The total fertility rate, or the average number of children a woman is expected to give birth to in her lifetime, fell to 1.26 in 2022. It’s the lowest number since 1947, the starting year for ...
For the first time ever, more than one in 10 people in Japan are now aged 80 or older. National data also shows 29.1% of the ...
It is very, very common knowledge that the median age of Japan's population is, well, not associated with the term "spring ...
Singapore's birth rate hit a record low in 2022, after years of consistent decline. The biggest reason for this shift is how ...
More than 10% of Japan’s population is now age 80 or older, the government said Monday, the latest worrying milestone in the ...
Efforts to reverse plummeting birth rates have yielded little success, mainly due to Japan's exorbitant cost of living.
Japan’s demographic crisis has worsened, according to the latest government figures revealing that over 10% of the country's ...
TOKYO (Reuters) - Japan may be seeing early signs of sticky inflation with several measures of broad price trends hitting record highs in July, data showed, heightening the case for a retreat from ...
TOKYO, Aug 31 (Reuters) - Japan's budget demands will hit a record for the next fiscal year, exceeding 112 trillion yen ($767 billion), sources told Reuters, as rising interest rates add to debt ...
TOKYO, Aug 23 (Reuters) - Japan may be seeing early signs of sticky inflation with several measures of broad price trends hitting record highs in July, data showed, heightening the case for a ...
