As the world's population increased five-fold since the start of the 20th century, the changes in the geographic distribution of the billions of people across the planet have been ongoing and ...

During the period, Japan became one of the world's most rapidly aging societies. Its population also began to shrink in 2010. The number of babies born in the country last year was almost 30 ...

This widening gap between births and deaths signals a rapidly shrinking population, which is raising serious concerns about the country’s future economic and social stability. Japan’s ageing ...

Japan’s decades-long fears over a contracting population, particularly in rural areas, where many regions are predominantly inhabited by elderly individuals, are about to worsen, with one ...

14500 B.C.-1000 B.C.), Japan had a population of 75,800 ... And in Tokyo where I reside, I am unnerved by the density of crowds in stores and trains. On the United Nations list of the world's ...

Japan's fertility rate is shrinking and so is its population. For some children that means the simple pleasure of playing team sports with classmates can no longer be taken for granted.