The country reported a decline in births for the 10th consecutive year, but an increase in marriages.

Each spring, as reliably as the changing of the seasons, Japan releases grim new population data that prompts handwringing in the press and vows by politicians to address the country’s demographic ...

To developmental economist Lant Pritchett, "population decline" is a mild way to describe what could be a global demographic crisis. "The reaction is often 'ho-hum' as the rates [of population decline ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Children attend a school ceremony in St. Petersburg. (Irina Motina—Xinhua/Getty Images) The Russian population is shrinking at an ...

South Korea only had 18,988 births in May, 2023 which is the lowest births since the agency started compiling the data in 1981. This was a drop of over 5% from May 2022. The number of deaths in the ...