Japan's total fertility rate last year dropped to the lowest since records began in 1947. Many people attribute the decline to the country's inflexible work culture. Preliminary demographic ...

Mr Yoshida has been maintaining a conceptual clock that highlights Japan’s rapidly declining fertility rate by displaying real-time data on the number of children in the country. It shows the ...

Tokyo’s total fertility rate, or the number of children a woman ... The rate for 2023 was 0.99 in the capital, the only prefecture in Japan that failed to reach 1.00, according to data released ...

People are reportedly so overworked that they don't have time to reproduce, making this country have one of the lowest birth ...

NAGI, Okayama Prefecture--A regional fertility rate of 2.95 sounds unbelievable given Japan’s struggle with the increasingly dwindling birthrate, but it has happened here in the small town of Nagi.

Australia’s fertility rates have been falling fast and are now at rock bottom. The economic consequences will be far-reaching ...

western Japan. The town of 5,700 residents has invested heavily over the last two decades to help parents pay for prenatal and childcare. Nagi's fertility rate hit 2.95 in 2019, far surpassing the ...

As Japan grapples with a record-low fertility rate, Toyko's government is trying new strategies to try to encourage women to have more children. The capital's government is introducing a four-day ...

Britain is relying on foreign-born mothers to push up fertility rates, data has showed. The fertility rate for foreign-born ...

The UK’s fertility rate is already sinking, but is projected to hit a low of 1.41 per woman over her lifetime in 2027; and stay at that rate for nearly a decade. Fertility rates in the the UK have ...