The country that once limited babies is now paying for themChina birthrate: China plans to give cash to families to encourage childbirth. Each child will get 3,600 yuan yearly until age three, start...
04 Jul, 2025, 12.17 PM IST
$5,000 'baby bonus': Trump admin works to convince American women to have more children as birthrates declineThe Trump administration is exploring pronatalist policies to address declining birthrates, including baby bonuses and incentives for marri...
22 Apr, 2025, 01.38 PM IST
US tech firm Salesforce to invest $1 billion in SingaporeUS cloud software giant Salesforce said Wednesday it planned to invest $1.0 billion in Singapore over the next five years to boost the use ...
12 Mar, 2025, 08.29 AM IST
Japan’s birthrate hits new low: Expert warns only one teenager will be left by THIS year in world's 4th biggest economyJapan faces a severe demographic crisis with a record low birthrate, a shrinking workforce, and rising social security costs. Government me...
27 Feb, 2025, 07.43 PM IST
Will Elon Musk, who warned about declining birthrates, slash taxes for mothers with multiple children?Elon Musk praised Hungary’s new tax relief policy for mothers with two or more children. Musk, a vocal advocate for addressing declining bi...
24 Feb, 2025, 09.25 PM IST
Japanese lawmaker's bizarre comments on women to tackle country's declining birthrate is viralJapanese lawmaker Naoki Hyakuta is facing severe criticism after he made controversial and bizarre remarks about women in a YouTube program...
13 Nov, 2024, 04.54 PM IST
More Chinese tied the knot in 2023, lifting marriage rates for first time in nine yearsChina's new marriages increased by 12.4% in 2023 due to COVID-19 impact. Premier Li Qiang aims for a birth-friendly society amidst declinin...
18 Mar, 2024, 01.09 PM IST
Three is best: How China's family planning propaganda has changedChina's one-child policy, once strictly enforced, has transitioned to promoting a pro-birth culture. However, birthrates continue to declin...
11 Mar, 2024, 10.27 AM IST
Korea to prioritize Korean language ability as part of immigration reformThe Ministry of Justice has said that fluency in Korean would play a significant role in the issuance of E-7-4 visas. These visas, which gr...
12 Aug, 2023, 11.56 AM IST
Japan PM Fumio Kishida under fire for linking loans to having babiesKishida has pledged "unprecedented" measures to tackle the country's perennially low birthrate, and his Liberal Democratic Party (LDP) is r...
04 Mar, 2023, 11.12 AM IST
Can China reverse its population decline? Just ask SwedenWith 850,000 fewer births than deaths last year, at least according to the country's official report, China joined an expanding set of nati...
13 Feb, 2023, 11.05 AM IST
Musk tweet on Japan doomed by low birthrate provokes anger - but not just at himThe comment hit a nerve among Japan watchers and in Japan, whose population peaked in 2008 and has declined since due to its low birthrate ...
09 May, 2022, 10.48 AM IST
Drop in Xinjiang birthrate largest in recent history: ReportThe report from the Australian Strategy Policy Institute, obtained exclusively ahead of publication by The Associated Press, showed the 48....
12 May, 2021, 11.32 AM IST
China considers new actions to lift flagging birthrateFor decades, China enforced strict controls on additional births in the name of preserving scarce resources for its burgeoning economy. But...
19 Feb, 2021, 03.12 PM IST
Japan aims to keep population at 100 million 50 years laterPopulation of Japan is projected to fall to about 87 million in the year 2060 if the nation's birthrate continues to remains low.
13 May, 2014, 04.48 PM IST
- Greying is no problem
It has become fashionable to issue dire projections of declining prosperity based on demographic ageing. But is that really such a problem?
05 Feb, 2014, 06.16 AM IST
- Japan's workforce may shrink by third by 2050
Japan's workforce may shrink by more than one-third by 2050 if the country fails to halt a declining birthrate, the Japanese government sai...
22 Apr, 2008, 04.57 PM IST