The number of deaths in 2024 increased by 28,181 to a record 1,618,684, and the natural decrease, subtracted from the number of births, stood at a record 897,696, according to preliminary data ...

Births were down 5% on the year, despite a range of steps unveiled in 2023 by former Prime Minister Fumio Kishida to boost childbearing, while a record number of 1.62 million deaths meant that ...

Japan recorded 720,988 births in 2024, according to preliminary government figures published on Thursday. The number has declined for nine straight years and appears to be largely unaffected by ...

Seoul-South Koreans rejoiced on Feb 26 at news that the number of births had risen for the first time in about a decade – a rare bright spot for a country facing a deepening demographic decline.

A national political advisor has called on China to lower the legal marriage age to boost its declining birth rate—yet analysts tell Newsweek such a move is unlikely to sway young Chinese.

South Korea reported a rare increase in births last year as the country grapples with a dwindling population. Its fertility rate remains the world’s lowest. By Jin Yu Young Reporting from Seoul ...

"It is difficult to measure how much each factor contributed to the rise in new births, but they themselves had an impact on each other too," Park said. Marriages, a leading indicator of new ...

Public health researchers said this month in the Journal of the American Medical Association that they calculated the tally by analyzing birth certificates and Census Bureau data for all 50 states ...

But is there cause for alarm? For a piece in this week’s issue, Gideon Lewis-Kraus travels to South Korea, which has the lowest birth rate of any nation in the world and possibly the lowest in ...

An average of 17 babies were born at LHSC each day, but the busiest single day saw 22 births, the equivalent of nearly one an hour. LHSC’s baby boom comes at a time when the number of births ...

"He came early and is going to be in the nicu for awhile," Altman continued, referring to the neonatal intensive care unit, where newborns receive specialized medical treatment after birth.