demographics

Efforts must be maintained to create an environment in which people can marry and start families earlier in their lives.

if society needs its senior citizens to work longer, an overhaul of the system for their employment should be carried out.

Australia's population will hit a record 25 million Tuesday, almost a decade earlier than projected, as it attracts hundreds of thousands of migrants each year, latest government data shows. Every minute, one person arrives to live in Australia, the data shows, underpinning demand for everything ...

Reforms are needed to ensure residents continue to receive necessary services as the nation's population grays and grows smaller.

As the nation's population declines, the government should promote deregulation to give municipalities more freedom to outsource their administrative services to local businesses and civic groups.

An estimate by the nation's leading demographics institute serves as a reminderto the nation of the threat many municipalities face as their populations shrink.

A migration policy is being deployed to combat acute labor shortages in sectors of the Japanese economy, but migrant workers won't be enough to solve the long-term challenges of Japan's demographic implosion.