Japan recorded its lowest number of births in history in 2022, with just 799,728 babies being born, down 5.1% from 2021. The figure is the lowest number of newborns recorded in Japan since the ...

The number of births in Japan plummeted to its lowest level on record in 2020 as the novel coronavirus pandemic accelerated, data released by the health ministry on June 4 showed. The number of ...

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 ...

Claims that the world is becoming 'overpopulated' have been in the zeitgeist for decades, but it's a lack of new babies that really concerns experts in developed countries. Japan announced this ...

Japan’s demographic crisis has worsened, according to the latest government figures revealing that over 10% of the country's ...

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 ...

Birth rates in Britain have dropped to a historic low with women having an average of 1.64 children, official figures showed yesterday. The statistics for last year also show that they are leaving ...

The yen hit a 10-month low against the dollar, putting traders on alert for more intervention by the Japanese government. Tokyo stepped up its verbal warnings against speculative yen-selling by ...

Aug. 30—Crawford County's jobless rate keeps falling to new lows, according to the Pennsylvania Department of Labor and Industry. The county's seasonally adjusted unemployment rate dropped to a record ...