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 ...

A fertility rate of 2.1 is required to maintain population stability. This paints a grim picture for the Asian nation's future. In an effort to curb its collapse, the Japanese government is ...

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

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.

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 ...

China, Japan, and South Korea have fertility rates below the global replacement rate — resulting in declining populations. South Korea's fertility rate was 0.72 in 2023, the lowest in the world ...

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