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WHO ACCUSED OF 'INSTITUTIONAL AGEISM' OVER FIVE-YEAR WORK PROGRAMME
Academics strongly criticise World Health Organisation for leaving older people and dementia off its proposed list of funding priorities... READ MORE›
HIGH PRAISE: POT CHURCHES PROLIFERATE AS STATES EASE ACCESS TO MARIJUANA
Nationally, such churches have opened in Indiana, where marijuana remains illegal, and Michigan, where medical marijuana is allowed... READ MORE›
JAPAN OPENS WORLDS FIRST DRIVE-THROUGH FUNERAL SERVICE
Welcome to the 21st century world of funerals in Japan... READ MORE›
FERTILITY RATE HAS DECLINED ACROSS THE WORLD IN PAST FEW YEARS. A LOOK AT THE FIGURES
According to WHO, the total fertility rate has declined in all South East Asian countries barring Timor-Leste where it has gone up... READ MORE›
AMERICAN EVANGELIST LEADS RARE EVENT IN COMMUNIST VIETNAM
We don't want to do anything that would embarrass the government or the people of Vietnam... READ MORE›
BREED LIKE RABBITS AND REVERSE POPULATION DECLINE, POLES URGED
European Union figures show that Poland's birth rate was 1.32 children per woman in 2015... READ MORE›
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ISLAM WILL BE LARGEST RELIGION IN THE WORLD BY 2070, SAYS REPORT
It also says that Muslims will make up 10 per cent of Europe's population... READ MORE›
10 000 ICELANDERS OFFER TO HOUSE SYRIAN REFUGEES AFTER AUTHOR'S CALL
I'm a teacher and would teach the child to speak, read and write Icelandic and adjust to Icelandic society... READ MORE›
CHINA ENDS ONE-CHILD POLICY ALLOWING FAMILIES TWO CHILDREN
The one-child policy took shape in the late 1970s, when Mr. Deng and other leaders concluded that China's growing population threatened to stifle economic growth... READ MORE›
HEALTH CARE COSTS HERE'S WHAT THE U.S. COULD LEARN FROM SINGAPORE'S PLAN FOR AGING WORKERS
Singapore's largest supermarket chain, NTUC Fairprice, has also focused on employing older workers, with roughly half of its employees aged 50 or over... READ MORE›
THIS MAP HELPS EXPLAIN WHY SOME EUROPEAN COUNTRIES REJECT REFUGEES, AND OTHERS LOVE THEM
Hungary -- and much of eastern Europe -- is missing out on a demographic opportunity Contrary to France, many Eastern European countries face a population decline... READ MORE›
LIFE EXPECTANCY WILL EXCEED 85 IN MANY COUNTRIES BY 2030
South Korea will take lead in life expectancy by 2030... READ MORE›
CHINA LIFTS ONE-CHILD POLICY AMID WORRIES OVER GRAYING POPULATION
China's controversial one-child policy was introduced in 1980 but was partially relaxed in 2013... READ MORE›
HALF OF WORLD'S RARE ANTELOPE POPULATION DIED WITHIN WEEKS
But something must have triggered this change across the entire population most likely a environmental factor, said Kock... READ MORE›
JAPAN RESTAURANT BANS COUPLES ON CHRISTMAS EVE
And I wish all restaurants would ban couples on Christmas Eve ... READ MORE›
CHINA LIFTS ONE-CHILD POLICY AMID WORRIES OVER GRAYING POPULATION
The 60-plus age group represents about a seventh of China's population... READ MORE›
WORLD POPULATION TO HIT 8BN IN 2023, SAYS NEW UN SURVEY
By contrast, all European countries now languish with fertility rates below replacement level, meaning that populations will inexorably decline without large-scale immigration... READ MORE›
ECONOMIC SCENE EUROPE MUST PLAN FOR IMMIGRATION JUGGERNAUT
Rich countries with lower fertility rates and older populations benefit from young migrants of working age, who help rev up their slowing labor supply... READ MORE›
YOUNG AMERICANS SHIFTING US TOWARDS BECOMING LESS RELIGIOUS NATION
Growing numbers of millennials who are unaffiliated or atheists are causing vast changes in the American religious landscape, report says... READ MORE›
IN THIS COUNTRY LITERALLY NO YOUNG CHRISTIANS BELIEVE THAT GOD CREATED THE EARTH
As of last year, about 75 percent of Iceland's inhabitants were registered members of the Evangelical Lutheran Church... READ MORE›
HOW EUROPE IS SLOWLY DYING DESPITE AN INCREASING WORLD POPULATION
Europe's population is overall increasing by a very small amount... READ MORE›
GLOBAL POPULATION SET TO HIT 9.7 BILLION PEOPLE BY 2050 DESPITE FALL IN FERTILITY
Continued population growth until 2050 is almost inevitable, even if the decline of fertility accelerates, says the report, World Population Prospects the 2015 revision... READ MORE›
ISRAELI ARMY MEN HAVE ONE OF THE WORLD'S HIGHEST LIFE EXPECTANCIES
Military service contributes to Israeli men's physical fitness, which, in turn, improves their overall health and life expectancy, he said... READ MORE›
ISLAM PROJECTED TO BE WORLD'S LARGEST RELIGION BY 2070
Pew researchers say experts they consulted assert that since Christianity began six centuries before Islam, followers of Christ have always outnumbered Muslims... READ MORE›
ITALY IS A DYING COUNTRY AS BABIES NO LONGER REPLACE PEOPLE WHO DIE, SAYS HEALTH MINISTER
06 Oct 2014 The mortality rate also declined last year, stretching life expectancy for Italian women to 85 years, while the average man will live to 80... READ MORE›
SORRY BENEDICT CUMBERBATCH, BUT YOU'RE WRONG ABOUT POLITICIANS
F--- the politicians! he cried, to wild audience acclaim... READ MORE›
HANDFUL OF SYRIAN REFUGEES PAID SPONSORS TO COME TO CANADA, EVALUATION REVEALS
A handful of Syrian refugees paid their sponsors to come to Canada, a government study published Friday reveals... READ MORE›
'NEVER BE ASHAMED': POPE FORCEFULLY DEFENDS IMMIGRANTS IN PHILADELPHIA
"I repeat, do not be ashamed of what is part of you, your life blood," Francis said ..... READ MORE›
SOUTH KOREA BABY BUST AS BIRTH RATE FALLS TO RECORD LOW
The growth of South Korea's population this year will be the slowest rate ever recorded, despite efforts to boost it, officials say... READ MORE›
THIS AMAZING MAP SHOWS WHERE MOST OF HUMANITY LIVES
Projects that by 2100 the world population will reach 11 billion, with nearly all of that growth occurring in Africa, writes Galka in his email to WorldViews... READ MORE›
GOING GONE AMERICAS FASTEST-SHRINKING CITIES
However, it was outward migration that drove the area's population decline of 4.9 percent over that period... READ MORE›
CHINA CONSIDERS PAYING COUPLES TO HAVE A SECOND CHILD
The Communist party credited it with preventing 400m births, contributing to China's dramatic economic takeoff since the 1980s... READ MORE›
A CROSS TO BEAR: THE VANISHING CHRISTIANS OF THE MIDDLE EAST
Rifugio Christians of the Middle East by Linda Dorigo and Andrea Milluzzi Schilt Publishing, 29.95, Amsterdam ... READ MORE›
THE WORLD IS GETTING MORE RELIGIOUS, BECAUSE THE POOR GO FOR GOD
The so-called masters of suspicion, Nietzsche, Marx and Freud, all thought that religion would wither and die in the 20th century... READ MORE›
HOW CHRISTIANITY AND ISLAM TOOK OVER THE WORLD IN 90 SECONDS
Represented in white and green, respectively, Christianity and Islam spring up from obscurity in the Middle East to morph into globe-spanning juggernauts... READ MORE›
WORLD'S OLDEST PERSON HAS LOTS OF COMPANY IN JAPAN
Already, a quarter of Japan's population of about 127 million is 65 years or older, according to the Ministry of Health, Labor and Welfare... READ MORE›