Demographics News & Analysis
The Other $400 Billion: Blurred Lines in China’s Military Budget
Examining the reasons behind Beijing’s real and imagined defense budgets.
China Population Decline Marks End of an Economic Era
China’s population recorded its first official decline since 1961, and the country’s economic model may never be the same.
Is Russia’s Demographic Decline Irreversible?
A fast-declining population has the potential to compromise Russia’s ambitious revisionist plans and perhaps even its own survival as a national state.
Population Decline: The New Normal in China’s Demographics?
China’s demographic decline is a tale long foretold, but it was never meant to happen quite so soon.
Confronting Asia’s Demographic Demons
Policymakers should tackle Asia’s diversity problem to reap not just a moral dividend, but an economic one as well.
In Falling Birthrates, Japan Faces an Existential Crisis
Birth rates are so low in Japan that a precipitous drop in population is now all but inevitable. What’s causing the problem, and what can be done about it?
Allons Enfants: Demographic Trends in France
What does the future hold for France, a country whose modern history has been intimately tied to matters of population?
Japan’s Population Hits Tipping Point
Japan’s demographic decline is all but assured, and it will bring economic headwinds for decades to come.
The Rapidly Disappearing Nation of Japan
Japan is projected to undergo one of the biggest population declines in human history over the next 50 years, producing some serious economic repercussions in the land of the rising sun.