Newsweek has broken down a global picture of the birth rate problem here. Iranian Deputy Health Minister Alireza Raisi said: "If we subtract the annual death rate from the birth rate, our ...

The UK population is set to grow by five million people in 10 years, despite death ... level of immigration to fill jobs, particularly given the long-term issue of declining birth rates.

The entirety of this growth will be made up of net migration, particularly from 2029 onwards when the death-birth rate stagnates ... Without net immigration, the UK’s population would be ...

The UK population is set to hit 72.5million by mid-2032 - overtaking France - entirely due to five million-strong net immigration ... downgraded the projected birth rate from 1.59 per woman ...

The definition of a “superpower” is rather subjective. In the Cold War it was applied only to the United States and the ...

The one-child policy began in 1980, four years after his death ... While the U.S. birth rate of 1.6 also falls short of the replacement rate, there remains one key difference: immigration.

Finland’s population growth in 2024 was driven almost entirely by immigration, as birth rates reached record lows for the third ... offset the ongoing natural population decline, as deaths outnumbered ...

There is a pervasive sense in the literature that, unlike their cousins who opted for emigration ... mortality rates were 20% to 25% higher than the English standard until the 1930s, with a slow ...

and “Why did they go to their death like lambs to the slaughter ... “More normal, at any rate, than I am after having examined him,” one of them was said to have exclaimed, while ...