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China’s population will continue to shrink

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CHINA

Policies in the 1980s to restrict the birth rate gave China a demographic dividend, with an enlarged working population driving GDP growth, but that has been exhausted. The…

Differing demographic trends create chances and tests

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INTERNATIONAL

Global demographic trends and implications.

Population fall will affect Japan despite policy moves

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JAPAN

A shrinking population and falling share of the population of working age are major factors influencing developments in the economy and society in the short and long term.

Shrinking workforce will dent East Asia’s economies

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EAST ASIA

Persistently low fertility rates mean that the next decade will see ‘super-aged’ societies not just in China but also in other key East Asian economies, including Hong Kong…

China's demographic challenge more urgent than thought

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CHINA

China has paid a high price for more than four decades of draconian controls on family formation. Slowing population growth and structural shifts within the population have…

Migrant-averse Central-Eastern Europe will lose growth

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EUROPE

Looming demographic decline in Central-Eastern Europe.

Adverse EU demographics will hinder potential growth

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EU

Europe's demographic changes.

Urbanisation will rise as birth rate declines in Peru

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PERU

Results of the 2017 census.

Africa will get old before it gets rich

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AFRICA

Implications of demographic shifts in Africa.

Slow population growth will pose challenges in Brazil

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BRAZIL

The demographic survey also revealed that the centre-west -- whose economy is largely powered by the long-booming agribusiness sector -- is growing more quickly than any other…