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MANILA, Philippines — As Asia remains “on track to become one of the oldest regions” in the world in the next few decades, the need for domestic helpers also grows rapidly, the International Labor Organization (ILO) said yesterday.

The latest Health, Labor and Welfare Ministry data underlines the accelerating decline of Japan’s population with an ever-falling number of births.

As the population ages and shrinks, the country is making it easier for foreigners to work and become citizens.

Japan’s Fertility rate is among the lowest in the world.

America’s baby bust isn’t over. The nation’s birth rates last year reached record lows for women in their teens and 20s, a government report shows, leading to the fewest babies in 32 years.

With low birthrates that are below replacement’s levels, Europe’s population is shrinking fast.

YOU KNOW THE story. Despite technologies, regulations, and policies to make humanity less of a strain on the earth, people just won’t stop reproducing.

Prime Minister Shinzo Abe plans to issue a statement offering a state apology to those who were subject to forced sterilization under a now-defunct eugenics law

Let’s not make them happen to us.

Aficionados of this blog will know that I love maps. Especially bright, colourful ones. One of my favourite books in my formative years was Chester Wilmot’s The Struggle for Europe.

Hungary wants to promote family support schemes.
Prime Minister Viktor Orban has unveiled measures to boost the birth rate.
The nationalist government is anti-immigration and has fallen out with the EU over migrant quotas.