Singapore's birth rate reached a record low in 2022 as high cost of living in the country steers couples away from expanding ...
THURSDAY, June 1, 2023 (HealthDay News) -- Births to teen moms in the United States reached a historic low in 2022, dropping 3% from the previous year, a new government report shows. Teenage ...
BEIJING - China’s low birthrate problems have been further complicated by the high prices demanded for traditional dowries by the families of potential brides. Chinese social media platforms ...
Japan's birth rate is set to hit another record low, with 2022 likely to see just under 800,000 new citizens coming into the world. The government has pledged more financial aid to reverse the ...
Around 773,000 babies will be born in 2022 in Japan, a decline more than a decade faster than forecast due to the plummeting birthrate, according to a calculation by The Asahi Shimbun. This year ...
Japan began introducing policies to encourage couples to have more children in the 1990s. South Korea started doing the same in the 2000s, while Singapore's first fertility policy dates back to 1987.
For decades, this lush mountain town's specialty was growing rice, black soybeans and satoimo, a taro root that features widely in Japanese cuisine and serves as the town's official mascot.
Falling birth rates are a major concern for some of Asia's biggest economies. Governments in the region are spending hundreds of billions of dollars trying to reverse the trend. Will it work?
Japan began introducing policies to encourage couples to have more children in the 1990s. South Korea started doing the same in the 2000s, while Singapore's first fertility policy dates back to 1987.
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SEOUL--Sowha Children’s Hospital here, famed for being the first hospital in South Korea dedicated to pediatrics, withdrew the word “Children’s” from its signboards about two years ago.
The country’s fertility rate hit 0.78 children per women in 2022 – the lowest ever recorded in Korea and currently in the world Opinion surveys show a growing desire among Korean women to ...
