Number of Births in Japan Up Again

The number of babies born in Japan rose for the seventh straight month in August, the government said Friday, raising hopes for an upturn in the country's plunging annual birthrate and declining population.

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Who needs real-time terrors like catastrophic climate change? Religious authorities and viral YouTube videos alike are bemoaning waning faith-based power by blaming something much more boring, even for scientists. Birth rates.

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Japan in the midst of an unprecedented recession, so corporations are being asked to work toward fixing another major problem: the country's low birthrate. One reason for the low birth rate is the 12-hour workday. "Canon has a very strong birth planning program," says the compa …

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From at least the Axial Age (800-200 BCE) until the late eighteenth century, most organized efforts to influence the size of populations aimed at boosting it.

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The Statistical Institute of Macedonia had a strict principle of exaggerating in a hyperbolic degree the number of Macedonians and minimizing that of other ethnicities.

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Japan saw its abysmally low fertility rate rise - from a low of 1.26 in 2005 - to 1.32 in 2006. It was the first uptick in six years, providing a glimmer of hope for a nation whose population is graying at a pace probably unprecedented in history.

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If you are thinking of having children and want to have a boy, you might want to book that romantic weekend getaway soon. Boys are getting harder to make, according to a new analysis.

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Canada isn't the only country in this predicament. According to America Alone, Mark Steyn's self-described and penetrating rant on "demography, Islam and civilizational exhaustion," the developed world has gone from 30 per cent to 20 per cent of global population.

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This is how Islam will finally conquer Europe.

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Mohammed, and its most common alternative spelling Muhammad, are now more popular babies' names in England and Wales than George, reflecting the diverse ethnic mix of the population.

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What Impact Would a Declining Population Have on the World?

Germany has seen another decline in its birth rate, which is Europe's lowest. Official figures show that the number of births fell by a further 2.8% last year. Meanwhile, the mortality rate rose by 1.5% compared with 2004.

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In his recent state of the nation address, President Vladimir Putin said the most urgent problem facing Russia is its demographic crisis.

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Europe (and the West) in particular is producing fewer and fewer children, with a high percentage of those who are born coming from immigrant families. But even in the Third World birth rates are rapidly slowing down.

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