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Government adviser criticises local-level authorities across China for rewarding couples that have multiple kids while withholding such benefits for those who have just one, amid growing fears over the shrinking population.

Japan has proposed a slew of measures to reverse the decreasing birthrate in the country. Among the proposals are higher subsidies for childrearing and education and a salary increase for younger workers to incentivize marrying and having kids., Economy News, Times Now

With the current demographic trends, Finlands working-age population is poised to shrink by nearly a fifth by 2070, a trend immigration is set to mitigate.

Japanese Prime minister Fumio Kishida said this week that it was "now or never" for Japan, one of the world's oldest societies, to reverse its shrinking population

Japanese Prime minister Fumio Kishida said this week that it was "now or never" for Japan, one of the world's oldest societies, to reverse its shrinking population

Japanese Prime Minister Fumio Kishida recently announced that the nation must take urgent steps to address the country's declining birth rate, saying it was "now or never" for the [...]

Japanese Prime minister Fumio Kishida pledged on Monday to take urgent steps to tackle the country's declining birth rate, saying it was "now or never" for the world's oldest society.

Many women are putting off pregnancy due to concerns over lockdowns and being turned away at hospitals, even as the economy and household finances suffer. Instead of spending huge sums on mass testing, Beijing should make housing, schooling and childcare affordable and stop treating women as reproduction tools.

With China’s fertility rate falling and its population becoming increasingly older, dwindling consumption presents ‘a brand new challenge that China has never faced before’.

Island is looking to inject considerable talent into its pillar industries in the face of a shrinking labour pool, few births and a population that keeps getting older.