Birth rate

The birth rate in Japan reached a record low for the eighth consecutive year on Wednesday, prompting the health ministry to label the situation as “critical” and the government to take steps to strengthen parental assistance....

On Sunday, Pope Francis decried Italy’s declining birthrate, saying that it posed a threat to the country’s future. The national statistics office said this month that births in Italy fell for the 12th year in a...

China, a country of 1.4 billion people, had a population growth rate of 0.57 percent from 2000 to 2010. In the last ten years, it has come down to 0.53 percent. This information has been known...

The fall in the number of births in 2017 came despite a 2016 move to relax China’s so-called “one-child policy” and allow all couples to have a second child. Births in mainland China fell by 3.5...