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The number of new births in Hong Kong fell to a record low in 2021, the South China Morning Post (SCMP) reported on Monday, noting the figure dropped below 40,000 for the first time in 56 years.

The Chinese Communist Party recently issued an edict directing family planning associations across China to “intervene in abortions among unmarried people and adolescents,” the state outlet Global Times reported on Friday.

Tokyo’s population decreased in 2021 for the first time in 26 years due, in part, to increased remote work availability during the Chinese coronavirus pandemic that encouraged people to leave the crowded metropolis, Bloomberg reported Monday.

The number of women of childbearing age — between 15 and 49 years old — in China decreased in 2021 by 5 million, China’s National Bureau of Statistics (NBS) announced on Monday.

A Chinese state-run news site published, then deleted, an editorial in recent days that argued every Chinese Communist Party (CCP) member should have three children to help reverse China’s declining birth rate, the Guardian reported Thursday.

China on Wednesday published a revised statistical yearbook covering 2000 to 2010 that purportedly “found” 12 million children undercounted in previous reports.

Prince William appears to have blamed rising populations, particularly in Africa, for the loss of wildlife, echoing comments he made in 2017 while his wife was expecting her third child.

Japan’s population dropped by a record margin of nearly 0.4 percent year-on-year as of January 1, the largest decrease recorded since 2013, Kyodo News reported Wednesday. The population of Japan declined by 483,789, or 0.38 percent, from January 2020 to

Southern China’s Panzhihua city announced Wednesday it will offer subsidies to families that have more than one child, the South China Morning Post reported on Thursday.

Tracy Stone-Manning, President Joe Biden’s nominee to be director of the Bureau of Land Management (BLM), described American children as an “environmental hazard” while advocating for slowing U.S. population growth in her 1992 graduate thesis.

U.S. Census Bureau data show Democrat-controlled cities suffered the largest declines in population in the first months of the pandemic. Baltimore and San Francisco both saw 1.39 percent population declines.

The United Kingdom witnessed 18 million passenger arrivals and issued nearly 670,000 new visas during the first year of coronavirus restrictions, prompting concern that the government will never be able to reach long-promised migration targets.

China’s National Bureau of Statistics published the results of its 2020 national census Tuesday, revealing one of the most modest population increases in the country’s history and prompting panic in Chinese government media that the nation would soon have the world’s lowest fertility rate.

California’s population declined by more than 182,000 people last year, marking the first time in the state’s history that it has experienced a year-over-year loss.

Representatives from the European Union’s 27 member states have approved Tenebrio molitor beetle larvae, also known as mealworms, as “innovative” food and suitable for human consumption.

Japan’s child population reached an all-time low last month after almost five decades of consistent decline, Japanese government data released on Tuesday revealed.

China’s annual population report for 2020 will reveal a population decline unparalleled since the era of Mao Zedong, the Financial Times reported Wednesday, prompting Communist Party officials to delay its publication.

The United States resident population has hit nearly 331.5 million, the largest in the nation’s history but also the slowest growth since the 1930s, Census Bureau officials revealed on Monday. 

Chinese Communist Party (CCP) internet censors have allegedly deleted dozens of social media accounts belonging to Chinese women’s rights groups ahead of the release of China’s latest ten-year census, expected to show a sharp decline in birth rates for the fourth consecutive year.

Mass migration accounted for 44 per cent of France’s population growth in 2017, according to the National Institute of Statistics and Economic Studies (INSEE).

The number of marriages in South Korea plummeted to an all-time low in 2020 owing to changing attitudes toward marriage among younger generations and the ongoing coronavirus pandemic, Yonhap news agency reported on Thursday.

Democrats have postponed a floor vote on President Joe Biden’s massive amnesty and population-expansion bill because of “dismal” support among Democrats, according to Politico. 

The director of a Chinese social development think tank recently proposed unmarried Chinese women over the age of 27 — known as “leftover” women or sheng nu in China — should embrace the surplus of single men in rural China to find a husband, the South China Morning Post reported Tuesday.

Hong Kong’s population declined last year for the first time since 2003, the Hong Kong Census and Statistics Department said Thursday.

Russia’s population dropped by over half a million people between January 2020 and January 2021, the country’s Federal State Statistics Service (Rosstat) revealed on Thursday. The drop is the largest on record since 2005.

A University of Milano-Bicocca study has claimed that mass migration of asylum seekers could reverse population decline in some of the country’s rural areas and small towns.

The population of South Korea fell for the first time in the country’s history in 2020, according to census data released on Sunday.

An Indian lawmaker recently proposed implementing population control methods throughout India, notably a two-child policy “based on the model of China,” the South China Morning Post (SCMP) reported on Tuesday.

Prime Minister Suga Yoshihide is planning to invest $19 million in the next fiscal year into “programs to help [Japan’s] residents find love,” an unnamed Cabinet official told the Japan Times this week, in an attempt to slow the nation’s rapidly declining birth rate.

President Trump’s personality and policies likely cut immigration by roughly one million people from 2017 to 2020, says the Cato Institute.

The inflow of Chinese and Indian migrants is outpacing migrants from Latin America, says a report by the Pew Research Center. 

Sweden’s population growth in 2020 is the lowest it has been in 15 years due to the lack of immigration following the Wuhan coronavirus outbreak.

Population density has had a more significant impact on the novel coronavirus death rate in the United States than lockdown measures, an analysis found in an editorial published by the Wall Street Journal on Sunday revealed, echoing other assessments.

The Constitution requires counting the number of citizens and non-citizens who live in the United States every ten years.

Tony Abbott has said conservative governments should do more to help working, middle-class women to have more children because the current birth-rate for that demographic is a “real problem”.

Almost seven in ten Britons are concerned about the effect mass migration will have on population growth, according to polling data.