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A medical worker cares for a newborn "dragon baby" in the maternity department of Zaozhuang Maternal and Child Health Hospital in Shandong province, China, Feb 10, 2024.
Economy

China’s fertility crisis is so dire, rates are falling below ‘replacement levels’ and GDP could slow by more than half in the next 30 years, study says

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August 4, 2025
A nurse examining a newborn baby in China
Finance

China is offering parents $500 annually for each new child they have for 3 years in an effort to boost declining birth rate

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July 29, 2025
Atsushi Katsuki, chief executive officer of Asahi Group Holdings Ltd., during an interview in Tokyo, Japan, on Thursday, Aug. 17, 2022.
Retail

How a Japanese population crisis has quietly made Asahi one of Europe’s biggest beer makers

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April 11, 2025
A dad working while holding a baby carrier
Success

Millennials choosing to be DINKs could push GDP down by as much as 4%

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March 19, 2025
Elon Musk with one of his children on his shoulders
Politics

Elon Musk, father of 13, thinks the world is facing an ‘underpopulation crisis’; the UN says the population will continue growing until 2100

By Tristan Bove and Fortune Editors
February 25, 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
Top economies face ‘population collapse’ as fertility rates drop, and something’s got to give, study says
Finance

Top economies face ‘population collapse’ as fertility rates drop, and something’s got to give, study says

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January 19, 2025
China’s population fell for the third year in a row in 2024
Politics

China’s population fell for the third year in a row in 2024

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January 17, 2025
Children attend a school ceremony in St. Petersburg, Russia.
Lifestyle

Russia is speeding into a demographic crisis with a 25-year-low birth rate as the Ukraine war rages on

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December 6, 2024
Paris is panicking as 10,000 Parisians are abandoning the city each year
Lifestyle

Paris is panicking as 10,000 Parisians are abandoning the city each year

By Juliette Collen and AFP
November 19, 2024
World’s richest man Elon Musk says people should relax about the costs and just have kids: ‘It’ll work out’
Politics

World’s richest man Elon Musk says people should relax about the costs and just have kids: ‘It’ll work out’

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October 22, 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
A girl plays in a fountain at Syntagma square
Politics

Greece spends €1 billion a year on pro-child policies as dwindling birth rates create new headaches for the country

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September 16, 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

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