population demographics

A Japanese father holds his daughter's hand walking down the street
Asia

Tokyo is turning to a 4-day workweek in a desperate attempt to help Japan shed its unwanted title of ‘world’s oldest population’

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November 4, 2025
JPMorgan warns one major demographic shock rattling the world will lead to a Social Security cliff by 2033

JPMorgan warns one major demographic shock rattling the world will lead to a Social Security cliff by 2033

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April 9, 2025
China marriages fall to record low as demographic crisis deepens
Lifestyle

China marriages fall to record low as demographic crisis deepens

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February 10, 2025
Russian students can now get cash payments for having babies as Kremlin struggles with birth rate at ‘catastrophic’ low
Finance

Russian students can now get cash payments for having babies as Kremlin struggles with birth rate at ‘catastrophic’ low

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January 5, 2025
H.E. Fahd bin Abdulmohsan Al-Rasheed
Conferences

A Saudi government official had only 3 career options when he graduated but says his 16-year-old daughter has many more

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November 12, 2024
A man shelters from the rain under an umbrella as he walks past the Euro currency sign in front of the former European Central Bank (ECB) building in Frankfurt am Main, western Germany, on July 27, 2023 ahead of thr ECB's monthly announcement on eurozone monetary policy.
Finance

Europe’s population crisis could shave 4% off its GDP by 2040, Morgan Stanley warns, and the options to solve it aren’t good

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October 14, 2024
Japan’s new prime minister is set to propose a happiness index
Leadership

Japan’s new prime minister is set to propose a happiness index

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October 3, 2024
Chinese grumble about Beijing’s decision to hike the retirement age: ‘I’ll just have to bear the three extra years of work’
Leadership

Chinese grumble about Beijing’s decision to hike the retirement age: ‘I’ll just have to bear the three extra years of work’

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September 13, 2024
China’s top lawmakers set to raise retirement age to handle shrinking workforce born of collapsing birthrate
Finance

China’s top lawmakers set to raise retirement age to handle shrinking workforce born of collapsing birthrate

By Foster Wong, Josh Xiao and Bloomberg
September 11, 2024
Elon Musk raising hands
Finance

Elon Musk and others urging people to have more kids are essentially calling for a Ponzi scheme, experts say

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August 31, 2024
Gen Zers and millennials are flocking to places with these attributes—and it’s key to winning the war for talent
Commentary

Gen Zers and millennials are flocking to places with these attributes—and it’s key to winning the war for talent

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August 21, 2024
Viktor Orban, Hungary's prime minister, takes a selfie photograph with a boy, after voting at a polling station in Budapest, Hungary, on Sunday, April 3, 2022. Prime Minister Viktor Orbans party was tied with the opposition in a poll published a day before Hungarys election, raising the possibility that the race will be even tighter than previously predicted.
Politics

Hungary offered €30,000 to couples having 3 kids—but its birth rate has still fallen to a record monthly low

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August 19, 2024
Asia needs better education and social safety nets to grow rich as aging and AI threaten livelihoods, UN says
Finance

Asia needs better education and social safety nets to grow rich as aging and AI threaten livelihoods, UN says

By Elaine Kurtenbach and The Associated Press
May 28, 2024
China’s population continued its record plunge in 2023 as total falls 2.1m on COVID deaths and low birth rate
Leadership

China’s population continued its record plunge in 2023 as total falls 2.1m on COVID deaths and low birth rate

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January 17, 2024
Bill Gates says at Davos that health spending is key to combatting climate change: ‘That’s where you get population growth to a steady state’
Environment

Bill Gates says at Davos that health spending is key to combatting climate change: ‘That’s where you get population growth to a steady state’

By Francine Lacqua, Mark Bergen and Bloomberg
January 16, 2024

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