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Australia says net migration down as far-right popularity surgesAustralia's immigration levels fell last year, official data showed on Thursday, as its centre-left government seeks to combat an ascendent...
Social Security May 20, 2026 payments: Who gets SSA and SSI checks this week, and how much amid inflation?Social Security May 20, 2026 payments are arriving this week for Americans born between the 11th and 20th. Many retirees, SSDI recipients, ...
Portrait of ageing India: Data shows 0-14 age group's share in population, fertility rate decliningIndia's demographic landscape is shifting, as revealed by the 2023 Sample Registration System report. The data indicates a declining fertil...
With decadal dipping birth rates and rising longevity, will India grow old before it can grow rich?India faces an emerging social challenge as its population ages rapidly due to declining birth rates and increasing life expectancy. While ...
More countries, including China, are grappling with shrinking and aging populationsCountries grappling with population decline and aging issues offer financial incentives to encourage childbirth. China, Japan, Italy, and S...
India starts preparing for a China-like population problemFalling fertility rates have left India staring at the spectre of looming demographic challenges that have caused big problems for other As...
Elderly could outnumber kids in India by mid-century: UNTerming the rate of growth of the elderly population as "unprecedented", the report has observed, "By the end of the century, the elderly w...
Taking aspirin to lower down stroke risk? Read this before poppoing out the next pillA new study suggests that low-dose aspirin may not be as effective in reducing the risk of ischemic stroke as previously thought. The study...
China's population falls for first time in over six decades: Key takeawaysChina ended its strict one-child policy — imposed in the 1980s owing to fears of overpopulation — in 2016 and began allowing couples to hav...
Why ageing citizenry is a challenge across the globe, particularly for IndiaFrom 5% of the population in 1950, senior citizens were close to 10% of the population by 2016, and this is estimated to rise to 19% by 205...
Declining marriage numbers add to China's demographic conundrumAs the demographic crisis deepened, China has permitted all couples to have two children in 2016, scrapping the draconian decades-old one-c...
Elder care startup Alserv expands to Coimbatore and KochiAlserv, part of the Allsec Group, has been operational in Chennai so far. After Coimbatore and Kochi, it plans to expand to Hyderabad and B...
Lower death rate pushes elderly population growth to 13.8 cr in 2021: StudyElderly in study means all those people who are of the age of 60 years and above. "According to the Report of the Technical Group on Popula...
China's population to enter negative growth after 2025: OfficialThe demographics of the world's most populous country is set to change as China will experience a negative growth after 2025, which will re...
China may adopt three-child policy, hints new stampIn 2016, China had introduced the two-child policy ending its decades-old one-child policy.
China's work force to decline to 57 per cent by 2030: ExpertsData from the National Bureau of Statistics (NBS) shows that in 2015, China's working age population was 911 million and there were 222 mil...
'China will have 1.45 bn people by 2030 due to 2-child policy'China's population is expected to reach 1.45 billion by 2030 following its move to scrap the three-decades-old one-child policy and permit ...
Europe needs baby boom to avert a population disaster: ReportSpain has one of the lowest fertility rates in the EU, with an average of 1.27 children born for every woman of childbearing age, compared ...
Singapore's population growth slowest in 10 years: ReportSingapore's population grew at its slowest pace in decade at 1.3 per cent from June 2013 to June 2014 due to drop in inflow of foreign work...
China's working age population drops by 2.44 millionChina's working-age population dropped by 2.44 million last year, the second straight year of decline, adding to woes for the Communist gia...