Editor's note: Faced with demographic challenges, the Chinese government has made more efforts to implement the national strategy of proactively responding to the low birth rate and population aging, and promote high-quality development of population growth, writes a veteran journalist with China Daily. A man hugs his grandson at a railway station in Hohhot, Inner Mongolia […]
To rejuvenate rural municipalities and to reduce population concentration in the capital, the Japanese government is set to offer families with children relocating from the Tokyo metropolitan area a subsidy up to 1 million yen ($7,800) per child, up from 300,000 yen, with effect from April this year. If an eligible couple with two children […]
China’s population fell by 850,000 people in 2022, the first such contraction in six decades, according to data released by the National Bureau of Statistics. The national birth rate fell to 6.77 births per 1,000 people against a death rate of 7.37 per 1,000 people. Meanwhile, China’s aging crisis is deepening, with 280.04 million people […]
Indigenous children wearing T-shirt designs with the image of the Aboriginal flag take part in a dancing ceremony during the annual "Invasion Day" protest march through the streets of Sydney on Australia Day on Jan 26, 2023. (ROBERT WAALCE / AFP) SYDNEY – Thousands of Australians marked the country's national day celebrations on Thursday with […]
In this file photograph dated Mar 16, 2017, government officials collects data from transgender Pakistanis during a population survey in Karachi. The government allocated a separate column for transgender people in a national census for the first time in 19 years. (FAREED KHAN / AP) ISLAMABAD — The Pakistan Bureau of Statistics (PBS) is preparing […]
Commuters walk in the Central Business District at lunch time in Sydney June 28, 2013. (DANIEL MUNOZ / REUTERS) SYDNEY – The COVID pandemic has blown a million-person hole in Australia's population projections in a challenge for an economy that has relied on having more consumers to drive growth, though a speedy recovery in migration […]
Commuters walk in the Central Business District at lunch time in Sydney June 28, 2013. (DANIEL MUNOZ / REUTERS) SYDNEY – The COVID pandemic has blown a million-person hole in Australia's population projections in a challenge for an economy that has relied on having more consumers to drive growth, though a speedy recovery in migration […]
A woman wearing a face mask crosses the street in Melbourne on March 5, 2020. (WILLIAM WEST / AFP) CANBERRA – Australia's population is smaller and older than previously projected as a result of the COVID-19 pandemic. According to the data released on Wednesday from the government's annual population report, the Australian population grew by […]
Editor's note: The Chinese path to modernization is in line with its national conditions and is the modernization of a huge population. And China's achievements have inspired many developing countries to seek their own path to development and prosperity. Three experts share their views on the issue with China Daily. (MA XUEJING / CHINA DAILY) […]
There are always two sides of the same coin for a populous country: a large population may prop up growth, but will also impose pressure on resources and environment. According to the latest forecast of the United Nations, China's population will remain above 1.4 billion before 2035, and will stay above 1.3 billion in 2050. […]
Indian commuters leave at Chhatrapati Shivaji Maharaj train terminus in Mumbai, India, Nov 14, 2022. (RAFIQ MAQBOOL / AP) NEW DELHI – As the global population reaches 8 billion, India, formerly a powerful driver of the number of people on the planet, is experiencing a marked slowdown. Falling fertility rates in the South Asian country […]
Editor's note: The declining fertility rate is a challenge to China's economic and social development, but the central authorities are making big efforts to meet the challenge, writes a veteran journalist with China Daily. Tourists visit Badachu Park decorated with red lanterns in Beijing, China, October 2, 2019. (PHOTO / XINHUA) Over the past decade, not […]
A man walks as he talks on his phone as another man runs behind him on a Winter day in central Sydney, Australia, July 4, 2017. (DAVID GRAY / REUTERS) SYDNEY – Australia's largest telecoms firm Telstra Corp Ltd said on Tuesday it had suffered what it called a small data breach, a disclosure that […]
In A Tale of Two Cities, Charles Dickens famously said, “It was the best of times, it was the worst of times, it was the age of wisdom, it was the age of foolishness, it was the epoch of belief, it was the epoch of incredulity, it was the season of Light, it was the […]
Hong Kong is already one of the world’s most densely populated places. It has recently been announced that over the last year, its population declined by about 1.5 percent. Some commentators have expressed their worries about this change. But in my view, a declining population (within certain limits) is going to be better than a […]
People wearing face masks cross a road in the rain near a subway station in Seoul, South Korea on July 13, 2022. (AHN YOUNG-JOON / AP) SEOUL – South Korea's registered population fell for the second consecutive year in 2021 due to a chronically low birth rate and higher deaths, statistical office data showed Tuesday. […]
Two young women in traditional dress wait to cross the street in the Asakusa area of Tokyo on Aug 4, 2022. (RICHARD A. BROOKS / AFP) TOKYO – Japan's population totaled 125.93 million as of Jan 1, representing the largest drop in the overall number and by percentage since comparable data were recorded in 1950, […]
(JIN DING / CHINA DAILY) The world's population has grown at a fast space during the past two centuries. The global population was only 1 billion in the early 19th century but it increased to 6.14 billion at the turn of this century and is inching toward 8 billion today. According to World Population Prospects […]
(JIN DING / CHINA DAILY) Sometime soon, India will overtake China as the most populous country on Earth. The headlines we will see are entirely predictable. Commentators will take the opportunity to declare－many with a sense of glee－that China's strict population policy in the past decades have resulted in very low fertility rates which translated […]
Monday was World Population Day. In his message to mark the day and the release of the United Nations latest World Population Prospects report, UN Secretary-General Antonio Guterres stressed that "it is a reminder of our shared responsibility to care for our planet and a moment to reflect on where we still fall short of […]
(JIN DING / CHINA DAILY) Even one year after the implementation of the three-child policy in May 2021, not much seems to have changed for China on the demography front. In particular, the low fertility rate and negative growth in the numbers of permanent residents in many provinces in 2021 have been cited by some […]
Mami Kaneko (right) smiles while holding her baby born on the first day of Japan's 'Reiwa' era, next to her husband (left) at a hospital in Kawagoe city, Saitama prefecture on May 1, 2019. (JIJI PRESS / AFP) TOKYO – Japan recorded a record low number of births in 2021, prompting the biggest ever natural […]
LAUSANNE, Switzerland, Apr 25, 2022 – (ACN Newswire via SEAPRWire.com) – World Malaria Day provides us with a moment to reflect on the scale of the challenge we still face – and recognise what needs to happen to fix it. When a community is equipped with effective insecticidal bed nets, it not only protects the […]
(MA XUEJING / CHINA DAILY) The central government has been attaching increasing importance to the "gray-hair economy" in recent years by, among other things, encouraging the development of community services including elderly home care, meal delivery and cleaning services. The gray-hair economy refers to the sector that provides products and services for the elderly population. […]
Editor's Note: China Daily's Chen Meiling interviewed Yuan Xin, a professor of demography at the Population and Development Research Institute, School of Economics of Nankai University in Tianjin, on the significance of the latest population data. Following are the extracts from the interview: Q: The Chinese mainland's population reached about 1.41 billion at the end […]
Hong Kong hadn’t seen a locally transmitted COVID-19 case with an unknown source for nearly three months since the last one was reported on Oct 8. Unfortunately, this record was broken after a number of imported omicron cases from quarantined overseas travelers was reported in December; the omicron variant has struck the local community, signaling […]
Among the three measures on Xinjiang the US House of Representatives approved on Dec 8 is a resolution “condemning” the so-called genocide and crimes against the Uygur people. The move exposes the political farce of Western countries. The fact is, instead of a genocide similar to what white colonialists committed in what is today known […]
Editor's Note: Some Western media and politicians have always criticized China for its family planning policy. Now they have found a new tool to beat China with, by accusing it of committing "genocide" in the Xinjiang Uygur autonomous region. But the results of the seventh national census and the outcome of the family planning policy […]
Editor's Note: China has made unprecedented economic achievements over the past decades thanks to the demographic dividends it enjoyed. But the falling fertility rate threatens to rob the country of those demographic dividends, so it has further relaxed the family planning policy to prevent that from happening, writes a veteran journalist with China Daily in the […]
Editor's Note: China has made unprecedented economic achievements over the past decades thanks to the demographic dividends it enjoyed. But the falling fertility rate threatens to rob the country of those demographic dividends, so it had to ease the family planning policy to prevent that from happening, writes a veteran journalist with China Daily in the […]