Japan ’s already alarming demographic crisis has now hit a worrying new milestone. For the first time in the country’s ...

Japan logged only about 843,000 births in 2020, its lowest number since records began being kept on the subject in fiscal 1979, according to the internal affairs ministry. The ministry on Aug. 4 ...

The total fertility rate, or the average number of children a woman is expected to give birth to in her lifetime, fell to 1.26 in 2022. It’s the lowest number since 1947, the starting year for ...

Singapore's birth rate reached a record low in 2022 as high cost of living in the country steers couples away from expanding ...

For the first time ever, more than one in 10 people in Japan are now aged 80 or older. National data also shows 29.1% of the ...

More than 10% of Japan’s population is now age 80 or older, the government said Monday, the latest worrying milestone in the ...

South Korea's birth rate hit a new low Wednesday as authorities announced barely 300,000 babies were born last year in the nation of 51 million people. Visitors rest in the shade in the midday heat at ...

TOKYO, Aug 31 (Reuters) - Japan's budget demands will hit a record for the next fiscal year, exceeding 112 trillion yen ($767 billion), sources told Reuters, as rising interest rates add to debt ...

Analysts found that Singapore's birth rate last year plummeted by 7.9 per cent, due to how expensive it is to live in Singapore, and the high cost of living continues to steer many away from ...

This file photo shows Japan's Finance Ministry in Tokyo's Chiyoda Ward. (Mainichi) TOKYO (Kyodo) -- Budget requests by Japanese government offices for the next fiscal year likely hit a record of ...

TOKYO (Reuters) - Japan's budget demands will hit a record, exceeding 112 trillion yen ($767 billion), for the current fiscal year, sources told Reuters, as rising interest rates add to debt ...