The Russia-Ukraine war has accelerated the population decline. A shrinking population threatens Russia's economy and could result in worker shortages and low growth. Russia's economy has a dire ...

Russia has moved in recent weeks to push for the adoption of a number of measures to avert a severe demographic crisis that has been compounded by President Vladimir Putin's war in Ukraine. Valery ...

The world's population is still growing, yet beneath these global statistics lies a different reality for dozens of countries ...

Each spring, as reliably as the changing of the seasons, Japan releases grim new population data that prompts handwringing in the press and vows by politicians to address the country’s demographic ...

Population numbers shape everything from economic growth to military strength. China’s demographic decline is accelerating ...

Across the world, governments adopted population-trimming policies, from massively subsidized birth control to promoting two-worker households to China's draconian "one child" policy. Getty Images I ...

Officials have warned Russian President Vladimir Putin that a demographic crisis could mean the country he leads will be short millions of workers by the end of the decade. In a meeting reported by ...

As the U.S. population ages, the country faces “a serious demographic problem,” said Tyler Brown, director of government affairs for North American Co. He said SECURE 2.0 is a step toward addressing ...

Think of global population problems and you might think of the growing number of people in the world – currently about 8 billion – and our collective toll on the planet. But due to people having fewer ...

Economists, tech elites and politicians have expressed concern regarding the sharp decline in birth rates in many countries. Falling fertility rates in advanced economies and emerging markets (such as ...

The Minister of National Economy and Finance, Kyriakos Pierrakakis, referred to demographics and the government’s support policies in a post on social media, saying: “The demographic issue is an ...