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But given the pace of population decline and ageing in China, the impact of the fast-paced, expensive city life on birth rates should be treated with more urgency by Beijing, demographers say.

Some studies suggest it is only as reliable as a coin toss. However, parents find the Chinese birth calendar surprisingly accurate to their own experiences. According to some surveys, it claims an ...

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Trump ties CT transportation funding to immigration compliance, birth rates. ‘A confusing mess’: Lamont. Trump ties CT ...

City logged record low of 32,500 babies born in 2022 and who are due to enter kindergarten in September About 40 ...

Japan’s already low birth rates have further declined. Last year, the nation’s “total fertility rate,” which indicates the number of children a woman is expected to give birth to during ...

During a December 2023 trip to Italy, Musk told people to "make more Italians" as a way of maintaining cultural identity amid ...

People are getting educated, and that changes perceptions about childbirth’ © Brian Otieno/FT As the decline in fertility rates across most continents has gathered pace — to a point where many ...

Among the orders was one directing federal DOT officials to give preference to “communities with marriage and birth rates higher than the national average” when awarding grants and contracts ...

The fertility rate in the UAE has seen a significant decline over the past 30 years but is projected to see a slight increase ...

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