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  Apr 13, 2023
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  Population Projections: The World’s 6 Largest Countries in 2075

  visualcapitalist.com - Marcus Lu

  The end of the 21st century will see the first plateauing (and eventually shrinking) of world population since the Industrial Revolution. As birth …

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  South Korea’s fertility rate sinks to record low despite $270bn in incentives

  The Guardian - Justin McCurry

  Average number of births per woman falls to 0.72 in country that already has the world’s lowest rate, and has spent billions since 2006 to reverse the trend

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  Japan's new births fall to record low in 2023 as demographic woes deepen

  Reuters - Kiyoshi Takenaka

  TOKYO, Feb 27 (Reuters) - The number of babies born in Japan fell for an eighth straight year to a fresh record low in 2023, preliminary government data showed on Tuesday, underscoring the daunting task the country faces in trying to stem depopulation. The number of births fell 5.1% from a year …

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  Births in Japan hit record low as government warns crisis at ‘critical state’

  The Guardian - Guardian staff reporter

  Birthrate continues to fall as young people increasingly reluctant to have children due to bleak job prospects, cost of living and work culture

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  Japan’s population crisis was years in the making – and relief may be decades away

  CNN

  CNN — Each spring, as reliably as the changing of the seasons, Japan releases grim new population data that prompts handwringing in the press and vows by politicians to address the country’s demographic crisis. It’s “now or never” to tackle declining births and the shrinking population, the country’s …

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  How Israel’s war on Gaza is bleeding Egypt’s economy

  Al Jazeera - Giorgio Cafiero

  Tourism, gas exports and Suez Canal revenues are all suffering, and the crisis in Rafah could make things worse, say analysts. Already facing a deep crisis, Egypt’s economy appears poised to take a hit from Israel’s war on Gaza and the spiralling tensions in the Red Sea, analysts have said. Currently …