Japan has been struggling to cope with a combination of anaemic economic growth and a shrinking population for over 30 years. 2025 marks the tipping point when the rising costs outstrip the country's ...

ANALYSIS: Before the election, Labor promised policies to lift the declining birthrate, but there is little evidence they will actually work.

Global health leaders call for urgent, integrated action on the rising rates of metabolic liver disease during a high-level ...

The birth rate plummeted for the ninth consecutive year with more than two deaths for every baby born in 2024. Aware that to ...

Aging population The Bahamas’ live birth rate has been on a steady decline since the early 1990s. In 1993, the country recorded 6,664 live births compared to 3,300 in 2022, according to data from the ...

Researchers analyzed global data from 1990 to 2021 and found that over 110 million women worldwide were affected by ...

Thousands of young children worldwide are still swallowing magnets despite an increase in regulations, finds a review of the ...

Hagiwara said Mimasaka is proud to host the statue “Ho Chi Minh reading a newspaper,” the first of its kind in Japan. Each ...

The "Make America Healthy Again" report outlines what it says are four leading drivers of childhood disease, but it is facing criticism from some health officials.

The wide-ranging report is organized around four topics that it describes as the "potential drivers behind the rise in ...