birth rate - Search News

Japanese birth rate falls to record low

Associated Press · 18h

Japan’s birth rate fell for a ninth consecutive year in 2024 to hit a record low

The number of babies born in Japan last year fell for a ninth consecutive year to hit a record low, according to health ministry data.

Japan could be the first country to become extinct due to low birth rate

A Japanese professor has warned of the critical demographic situation facing the country. He claims that, by the year 2720, the Japanese race will be extinct, meaning that Japan wo

The Daily Telegraph · 21h

Japanese birth rate falls to record low as deaths hit record high

Number of women having babies plummets for ninth consecutive year as concerns about rapidly ageing and shrinking population grow

The Independent on MSN · 15h

Japan ‘on verge of no longer functioning’ after birth rate plummets to record new low

The number of babies born in Japan has dropped to the lowest the country has ever seen since records began 125 years ago, falling ninth straight year despite the government’s efforts to reverse the decline.

WION on MSN · 37m

Japan’s births drop 5% in 2024 to record 720,988

Japan’s birth rate has hit a record low, marking a 5% decline from the previous year. This extends a 9-year streak of falling births, according to Japan’s health ministry. Meanwhile, deaths reached a record-high 1.

South Korea’s birth rate rises for 1st time in decade

South Korea’s birth rate rose for the first time in 9 years. Is the world’s lowest fertility rate on the rebound?

South Korea’s fertility rate rose in 2024 for the first time in nine years, supported by an increase in marriages, preliminary data showed on Wednesday, in a sign that the country’s demographic crisis might have turned a corner.

UPI News on MSN · 1d

South Korea birth rate rises for first time in 9 years on marriage boom

South Korea's record-low birth rate rose in 2024, the country's statistics agency reported on Wednesday, marking the first increase in nine years in a slight respite from a looming demographic crisis.

New York Sun · 13h

Slight Increase in South Korean Birth Rate Seen as Major Triumph

The vice chairman of a government committee on aging perceives the ‘rebound as an important step to reverse the long-term trend’ in which the low

The New Yorker2d

The Apocalyptic Decline in Birth Rates

Gideon Lewis-Kraus explores whether we’re witnessing the end of children. Plus: Jon Lee Anderson on growing up in a U.S.A.I.D ...

13don MSN

Which States Could Win and Lose From New Birth Rate Funding Link

The Department of Transport has been directed to distribute funding to states dependent on their birth and marriage rates.

12hon MSN

Amid low birth rates, war and emigration, Ukraine’s numbers are dwindling

In addition to the struggle against Russia, Ukraine faces a more existential battle, its birth rate is plunging and people ...

Some results have been hidden because they may be inaccessible to you

Show inaccessible results