Birth rate
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Japan’s birth rate is ‘critical’ as it hits record low
Jun 6, 2024The 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.... -
Pope Francis says Italy’s plunging birth rate is a ‘tragedy’
Dec 26, 2021On 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’s birth rate has dropped over the past 10 years
May 11, 2021China, 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... -
Births in mainland China fell by 3.5 percent to 17.23 million last year
Jan 19, 2018The 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...
