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 ...

Japan began introducing policies to encourage couples to have more children in the 1990s. South Korea started doing the same ...

Japan’s government has made tackling its falling birth rate a top priority, but with few women involved in official debate on the issue, some are making themselves heard on social media.

SINGAPORE, Sept 28 (Reuters) - Japan’s Nikkei share average hit a one-month low on Thursday, as worries that the Federal Reserve’s interest rates would stay at elevated levels crimp risk appetite.

Analysts found that Singapore's birth rate last year plummeted by 7.9 per cent, due to how expensive it is to live in Singapore, and the high cost of living continues to steer many away from ...

Sep. 26—Teri Ooms feels encouraged about the state of the local job picture as the region's unemployment rate continues to drop. The seasonally adjusted unemployment rate for the Scranton/Wilkes-Barre ...

Japan recorded its lowest number of births in history in 2022, with just 799,728 babies being born, down 5.1% from 2021. The figure is the lowest number of newborns recorded in Japan since the ...

SINGAPORE, Sept 28 (Reuters) - Japan's Nikkei share average hit a one-month low on Thursday, as worries that the Federal Reserve's interest rates would stay at elevated levels crimp risk appetite.

Japan's Nikkei share average hit a one-month low on Thursday, as worries that the Federal Reserve's interest rates would stay at elevated levels crimp risk appetite.

SINGAPORE, Sept 28 (Reuters) - Japan's Nikkei share average hit a one-month low on Thursday, as worries that the Federal Reserve's interest rates would stay at elevated levels crimp risk appetite.