News Analysis As Pope Francis calls on young Italians to have fewer pets and more children, the issue of a declining fertility rate has also been brought to the fore in the UK. Backbench MP Miriam Cates declared the approach of a population collapse at the UK’s first National Conservatism conference. Charity Population Matters, which campaigns against population…

Estimates released by the California Department of Transportation show the exodus out of the state continuing, with the population expected to decline from about 39 million today to approximately 35.7 million by 2050. The transportation department began analyzing populations to guide road and highway planning and development in 2000. Orange County’s population is expected to…

Commentary American poet Carl Sandburg once wrote, “A baby is God’s opinion that the world should go on.” However, this view is not shared by doomsayers in the United States and Western countries who push “depopulation,” believing the world is overpopulated. Their response to this “crisis” is to advocate for unhindered access to birth control and abortion….

Commentary The pace slowed, but people overall still are exiting California, according to the latest population report by the California Department of Finance. The decline of 138,400 people from 2021 to 2022 dropped the state’s population to 38,940,231, or -0.35 percent. Which put it below 39 million for the first time since 2015. The report…

Commentary Never before has humanity seen laid before it such an endless field strewn with earthly wealth at the very moment of realization that the treasure has become devoid of meaning. Humanity at the peak of its prosperity is always reminded of the transience of its fortune—and then humiliated by the realization that wisdom evaporates from…

New Analysis Japan saw the fewest number of births in its recorded history last year, health ministry data showed. The number of newborns in the country fell to 799,728 in 2022, down 5.1 percent from a year earlier, according to data released by Japan’s Ministry of Health, Labor and Welfare on Feb. 28, marking a…

Henan, China’s third most populous province, reported a reduction of 110,000 permanent residents in 2022 compared to 2021. Several other provinces have also reported various degrees of population decline. On Feb. 20, the central Henan provincial statistics bureau announced its second year of population decline. In 2022, Henan recorded 98.72 million permanent residents, a reduction…

China’s export growth is expected to turn negative in 2023, a prominent Chinese research institute says in a recent report. Meanwhile, Beijing admitted export trade represents “irreplaceable strategic significance” to the country’s economic stability and employment rate. In the past two years, China’s total imports and exports accounted for more than 20 to 30 percent of…

News Analysis China, the world’s most populous country, has reached a turning point in history as it recently announced its first population decline in 60 years. China analysts predict severe problems for the world’s second-largest economy owing in part to its shrinking population. According to Beijing critics, the Chinese Communist Party (CCP) has spent decades…

News Analysis More than a dozen Chinese provinces recently announced that they have no plans to build new universities. China experts point out that with the decline in the country’s population, particularly a large number of COVID-19 deaths, there is a significant reduction in the college-age population, and universities will have trouble recruiting enough students…