by AIP Online Bureau | Mar 21, 2024 | Eco/Invest/Demography, Indian News, Policy
Poonam Muttreja, Executive Director of Population Foundation of India (PFI), a non-profit organisation promoting gender sensitive population and health policymaking, said the findings have “profound implications” for India and includes challenges such as...
by AIP Online Bureau | Feb 28, 2024 | Eco/Invest/Demography, International News, Life, Pension & Social Security, Policy
Singapore is confronted with the “twin demographic challenges of a persistently low fertility rate and an ageing population”, the daily quoted the minister as saying Singapore:Singapore, facing a dwindling population and a manpower shortage, has seen its...
by AIP Online Bureau | Aug 16, 2023 | Data, Eco/Invest/Demography, Policy
China’s fertility rate is already one of the world’s lowest alongside South Korea, Taiwan, Hong Kong and Singapore. Concerned about China’s first population drop in six decades and its rapid ageing population, Beijing is urgently trying an array of...
by AIP Online Bureau | Feb 24, 2023 | Data, Eco/Invest/Demography, Policy
As of 2020, South Korea was the only country among the OECD members to have a rate below 1, giving it a shrinking population. Being married is seen as a prerequisite to having children in South Korea, but marriages are also plunging in the country amid sky-high costs...
by AIP Online Bureau | Aug 26, 2022 | Eco/Invest/Demography, Facts, International News
Korea is the world’s fastest-aging nation among economies with per capita GDP of at least $30,000, according to United Nations global population projections and World Bank data. By 2100, its population will fall by 53% to 24 million, up from a 43% decline forecast in...
