BERLIN—Refugees arriving from Ukraine have helped drive Germany’s population to its highest level, the Federal Statistical Office said, with more than 84 million people now living in the European Union’s most populous country. In a report issued on Tuesday, the Federal Statistics Office said that the population had grown by 1 percent, or 843,000 people,…
New Birth-Boosting Guidelines Reveal ‘Serious’ Population Issue in China: Experts
August 21, 2022
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China’s top health body issued joint policy guidelines on its official website on Aug. 16 to encourage more births as part of the ruling communist party’s efforts to “promote long-term balanced development of the population.” The document, titled “Guidelines on Further Improving and Implementing Supportive Measures of Active Reproduction,” was jointly published by 17 different…
Plummeting Chinese Population Reveals Young People’s Reluctance to Birth: Expert
China’s senior population official acknowledged in an annual population meeting that China’s population growth slowed down and was expected to record a decline before 2025. Yang Wenzhuang, director of population monitoring and family development division of China’s National Health Commission, said at the meeting that China’s population is projected to “enter a negative increase,” according…
Hong Kong’s Child Raising Costs Nearly 70 Percent of Median Household Income: Survey
July 31, 2022
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Hong Kong’s total population saw negative growth in 2021, with data showing the declining birth rate being a top reason. A recent survey found that the average cost of raising a child in Hong Kong accounts for nearly 70 percent of the city’s median household income. According to its Census and Statistics Department (CSD), Hong…
War Has Killed 1.5 Percent of Syria’s Population: UN Estimate
GENEVA—The U.N. human rights office said on Tuesday that 306,887 civilians had been killed in Syria during the conflict since March 2011, or about 1.5 percent of its pre-war population, in what it said was the highest estimate yet. Syria’s conflict sprang out of peaceful protests against President Bashar al-Assad’s rule in March 2011 and…
Elon Musk Predicts China’s ‘Population Collapse’
June 6, 2022
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Tesla CEO Elon Musk suggests that China could soon be facing a “population collapse” in the aftermath of Beijing’s decades-long population control program that until recently had restricted most families in China to a single offspring. “Most people still think China has a one-child policy,” he wrote in a June 6 tweet that was pinned…
Californians Voting with Their Feet—Somewhere Else
Commentary I first heard the phrase “voting with their feet” in the 1960s during the Vietnam War. It was used for people fleeing communist North Vietnam for free South Vietnam. Later, after Saigon fell to the communists, overrunning Saigon in 1975, the “Boat People” took to the seas, millions coming to free America, especially Orange…
New Brunswick Rapidly Growing as Population Tops 800,000 for the First Time: StatsCan
New figures from Statistics Canada show New Brunswick is experiencing a population boom. The federal agency said Friday the province’s population recently topped 800,000 for the first time, having gained more than 40,000 people in the past five years alone. Premier Blaine Higgs issued a statement saying the province is experiencing higher immigration levels and…
Immigration-Driven Population Growth Claiming Vast Swaths of Open Space: Report
March 18, 2022
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A new report from NumbersUSA has revealed that 17,800 square miles of open space in the U.S. was claimed by development between 2002 and 2017. That area is about as large as Connecticut and Maryland put together. “The rate of sprawl in this century has slowed down fairly substantially from what it was in the…
Chinese Politician Blasted Over Proposal to Allow Single Women to Have 1 Child
A member of the Chinese regime’s top political advisory body on March 4 put forward a proposal to allow single women over the age of 30 to have one child due to China’s declining population. But it was met with public criticism. On Friday, when China’s annual political meetings, called the “Two Sessions,” kicked off,…
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