Aging Population

China loses more than 40 mn workers in three years as population ages

The data reflects a rapid rise in the number of people retiring, likely raising pressure on Beijing to accelerate unpopular plans to raise official retirement ages

Japan births at record low as population shrinks and ages: Official

The number of babies born in Japan this year is below last year's record low in what the the top government spokesman described as a critical situation. Chief Cabinet Secretary Hirokazu Matsuno promised comprehensive measures to encourage more marriages and births. The total of 599,636 Japanese born in January-September was 4.9% below last year's figure, suggesting the number of births in all of 2022 might fall below last year's record low of 811,000 babies, he said. Japan is the world's third biggest economy but living costs are high and wage increases have been slow. The conservative government has lagged on making society more inclusive for children, women and minorities. So far, the government's efforts to encourage people to have more babies have had limited impact despite payments of subsidies for pregnancy, childbirth and child care. The pace is even slower than last year ... I understand that it is a critical situation, Matsuno said. Many younger Japanese have balked at

Singapore faces challenge of finding foreign nurses for aging population

One key challenge for Singapore is to find enough foreign nurses to supplement local ones to care for the elderly as the health care system will require 24,000 of them by 2030, according to media reports. "They (nurses and healthcare staff) number 58,000 now and the Ministry of Health estimates that this will need to grow to 82,000 by 2030," Health Minister Ong Ye Kung told Parliament on Wednesday. Singaporeans and permanent residents make up about 72 per cent of Singapore's pool of registered and 63 per cent enrolled nurses. The rest are from the Philippines, Malaysia, China, India, Myanmar and other countries, according to a report by The Straits Times. Acknowledging the heightened international competition for nurses, Ong added that the ministry is supportive of a suggestion by Nominated MP and breast surgeon Tan Yia Swam of granting permanent residency to good performers. He also pointed out that by 2030, one in four Singaporeans will be aged 65 and above, up from one in six .

Should India consider raising the retirement age?

India is preparing to face the challenges of rising elderly population. Its largest retirement fund EPFO recently backed the idea of raising the retirement age in line with western countries to deal w

Population collapse due to low birth rates a bigger risk than climate: Musk

This is not the first time that Tesla's top boss has warned about declining birth rates. In June 2022, he also shared data from The Wall Street Journal

China's population grows by less than half-a-million as birth rate falls

China's population grew to 1.4126 billion by the end of last year, increasing by less than half-a-million as the birth rate fell for the fifth consecutive year

S Korea's population to see 1st decline amid low birthrate, rapid ageing

South Korea's total population is expected to record its first decline this year, the statistics agency said on Thursday

Chinese county to give cash handouts to couples to have babies

A county in western China will give cash subsidies to couples to have children, the latest push to encourage more births in a country where the population is set to decline in coming years

'Anti-aging freak' gets $817 million haul in Japan's hottest stock

Kiyoshi Matsuura was so worried about growing old that he used anti-baldness treatment as a teenager: it's an obsessions reaping him profits

Singapore's population growth slows down to 1.1% in 2010-20 decade

This is a slowdown from 2.5 per cent annually in the preceding decade

China moves to three-child policy as working-age population shrinks

China has been gradually reforming its stringent birth policy that for decades limited most families to only having a single child

Fewer workers, more retirees: Slowing population spells problem for world

Demographers predict that by latter half of the century, global population will enter a sustained decline for the first time.

China's slow population growth will become the world's problem

Beijing's once-in-a-decade census showed there were 1.412 billion people in China last year.

India's life expectancy rises to 68.7 years: National Health Profile 2019

NCT of Delhi has the highest population density of 11,320 people per square km, while Arunachal Pradesh has the lowest of 17 per sq km

Asia's ageing population to cost $20 trillion: study

Yearly spending on caring for the elderly is expected to reach $2.5 billion - five times the cost in 2015 - the study said