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Concerned by China’s shrinking population, political advisors to the government have come up with more than 20 recommendations to boost birth rates, though experts say the best they can do is to slow the population's decline. China dug itself into a demographic hole largely through its one-child policy imposed between…

A potential policy shift to allow unmarried women to freeze their eggs is under discussion as the country faces falling birth rates and an unprecedented population drop

Japan will cease to exist if it can’t slow a fall in its birth rate that threatens to wreck the social safety net and economy, according to an adviser to Prime Minister Fumio Kishida.

‘The number of births is the first indicator of the hope of a people. Without children and young people, a country loses its desire for the future,’ the Pope said in a recent speech