Japan has been struggling to cope with a combination of anaemic economic growth and a shrinking population for over 30 years. 2025 marks the tipping point when the rising costs outstrip the country's ...

The author is a Principal of the Saemal Saemomjit School Nothing escapes the cycle of birth, growth, decay and death. The ...

The Coalition for Global Hepatitis Elimination's National Hepatitis Elimination Profiles assess the status of national data, ...

Aging population The Bahamas’ live birth rate has been on a steady decline since the early 1990s. In 1993, the country recorded 6,664 live births compared to 3,300 in 2022, according to data from the ...

Though we now know the exact time he breathed his last, on September 2, 1969, there has always been a mystery on the exact ...

Hagiwara said Mimasaka is proud to host the statue “Ho Chi Minh reading a newspaper,” the first of its kind in Japan. Each ...

In 2024, 720,988 babies were born in the country, marking the ninth consecutive year of decline in child births.

Canada is known for its historically immigrant-friendly policies and multicultural environment. About 23% of Canada’s population consists of immigrants, which is the highest among G7 countries: Canada ...

Japan is likely to cover parents’ hospital fees for childbirth from April 2026 as the country struggles to reverse its falling birth rate. A panel of experts tasked with examining ways to ease ...

History has multiple equilibria. Seemingly stable arrangements can turn on a dime.“There are decades where nothing happens; ...

In the Czech Republic, the largest beer market by per-capita consumption, some 1.3m hectolitres of non-alcoholic beer was ...