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South Korea’s Ministry of Economy and Budget will expand its Regional Revitalization Fund to six institutions and raise 2 trillion won in 2024, boosting investment in areas facing population decline and industrial challenges.
#YonhapInfomax #RegionalRevitalizationFund #MinistryOfEconomyAndBudget #InvestmentInstitutions #PopulationDecline #2TrillionWon #Economics #FinancialMarkets #Banking #Securities #Bonds #StockMarket
https://en.infomaxai.com/news/articleView.html?idxno=98714

China’s former one-child policy chief Peng Peiyun dies

https://fed.brid.gy/r/https://dailytimes.com.pk/1424441/chinas-former-one-child-policy-chief-peng-peiyun-dies/

I'm noticing *way less* outdoor LED Christmas lights both in the village I work in and my outer suburban home streets this year.

I don't even think its cost of electricity (LED lights don't use that much power, and the per-unit price has dropped compared to a few years ago), but an effect of #ageing population and #populationDecline - there are considerably fewer #children around the streets, and the older folk who tend to put them up are increasingly less mobile due to age and don't want to take risks scaling ladders etc as even a minor fall could be life-threatening..

Ukraine đang đối mặt với khủng hoảng dân số nghiêm trọng do xung đột kéo dài khiến dân số sụt giảm mạnh – từ 42 triệu người còn chưa đến 30 triệu. Làn sóng di cư ồ ạt, tỷ lệ sinh giảm sâu và hàng trăm nghìn người thiệt mạng hoặc mất tích là những hệ quả nhân đạo lớn nhất. Đất nước phải đối mặt với nguy cơ "chảy máu chất xám", mất lực lượng lao động trẻ và gánh nặng dân số già hóa.

#Ukraine #Crisis #DemographicCrisis #PopulationDecline #KhủngHoảngDânSố #XungĐộtUkraine #Migration #DiCư #DânSố #

What an article by @SAPIENS_org on antinatalism. Thank you for reporting on this essential topic!!! (Link with tracking from Firefox's new tab to show support for these topics!) https://www.sapiens.org/culture/japan-reproduction-death-anti-natalism-movement/?utm_source=firefox-newtab-en-us (Link without tracking.) https://www.sapiens.org/culture/japan-reproduction-death-anti-natalism-movement :vegan: :vegan: :vegan:❤️❤️❤️✨✨✨💖💖💖 #Antinatalism #Antinatalist #Veganism #Vegan #Intersectional #Intersectionality #Japan #Movement #Activism #Activist #Population #Populationdecline #DontPopAdopt #Reproduction

CG Co-Director Melinda Mills spoke at The #Fiduciary #Investors Symposium, warning that a shrinking #European #population will trigger significant changes in #economic growth & #investor opportunities.

Read the full write-up of her talk:
https://www.top1000funds.com/2025/11/investors-wrestle-with-europes-demographic-timebomb/

#investment #investmentopportunities #retirement #retirementfunds #investmentfunds #pensionfunds #pensions #workingage #populationdecline #demography #demographictimebomb #socialscience #economics #economy #pension

Becuse my elderly father likes to bring his latest existential dread to me, I've been reading about #DemographicCollapse / #PopulationDecline & even some #leftist writers seem to ignore that we spent the last century worried about a #malthusian disaster.
Obviously, it's a real problem, but are there good sources I can read/watch that aren't going to lead me to #doomerism?
#nzpol #futurism

Russia’s population is shrinking and aging, prompting strict govt policies—cash incentives for families, abortion restrictions, and "traditional values" campaigns. But war, economic woes, and emigration keep birth rates low. Critics warn of long-term damage. 🇷🇺 #Russia #DemographicCrisis #Putin #BirthRate #AbortionBan #WarImpact #PopulationDecline

https://kokcha.news/9766/?utm_source=mastodon&utm_medium=jetpack_social

On Sustainable Population Growth: Human Values

Author(s): Scott Douglas Jacobsen

Publication (Outlet/Website): The Good Men Project

Publication Date (yyyy/mm/dd): 2025/07/01

“Population growth can exacerbate environmental degradation when it increases pressure on natural resources and generates more waste and emissions. Sustainable development requires policies that balance population trends with economic growth, environmental protection, and social equity.”

World Population Prospects 2022, UN DESA

“Rapid population growth can hinder economic development, especially when it outpaces the provision of essential services and job creation. A stable population supports long-term sustainability.”

World Development Report 2007

“Sustainable development is development that meets the needs of the present without compromising the ability of future generations to meet their own needs. Population growth must be addressed within that context.”

Our Common Future (1987), Brundtland Commission Report

The 2024 revision of the United Nations World Population Prospects (medium-variant series) describes 42 of the 193 UN member states, excluding the Holy See and the State of Palestine, as in absolute demographic decline. The number increases to 48 if micro-states and non-sovereign areas are included.

The 1980s saw two countries enter absolute decline: Hungary and Bulgaria. In the 1990s, 14 countries entered population regression: Albania (1990), Estonia (1990), Latvia (1990), Romania (1990), Armenia (1991), Bosnia and Herzegovina (1991), Croatia (1991), Lithuania (1991), Georgia (1992), Belarus (1993), Moldova (1993), Russia (1993), Ukraine (1993), and Serbia (1995).

Eight countries entered regression in the 2000s, slowing down the per-country rate: Barbados (2000), Dominica (2000), Saint Lucia (2000), Saint Vincent and the Grenadines (2000), North Macedonia (2001), Cuba (2006), Andorra (2008), Portugal (2008), and Japan (2008).

Ten countries entered population decline in the 2010s: Greece (2010), Montenegro (2011), Poland (2012), Grenada (2012), Saint Kitts and Nevis (2013), Italy (2014), Slovenia (2014), Trinidad and Tobago (2014), Mauritius (2019), and Tonga (2019).

The 2020s saw seven countries enter this same pattern so far: South Korea (2020), China (2021), Slovakia (2021), Monaco (2022), San Marino (2022), Uruguay (2022), and Seychelles (2023). The chronology is as follows, represented as a consistent bullet point series:

1980s

Hungary (1980–maybe 1981-1982)
Bulgaria (1989)

1990s

Albania (1990)
Estonia (1990)
Latvia (1990)
Romania (1990)
Armenia (1991)
Bosnia and Herzegovina (1991)
Croatia (1991)
Lithuania (1991)
Georgia (1992)
Belarus (1993)
Moldova (1993)
Russia (1993)
Ukraine (1993)
Serbia (1995)

2000s

Barbados (2000)
Dominica (2000)
Saint Lucia (2000)
Saint Vincent and the Grenadines (2000)
North Macedonia (2001)
Cuba (2006)
Andorra (2008)
Portugal (2008)
Japan (2008)

2010s

Greece (2010)
Montenegro (2011)
Poland (2012)
Grenada (2012)
Saint Kitts and Nevis (2013)
Italy (2014)
Slovenia (2014)
Trinidad and Tobago (2014)
Mauritius (2019)
Tonga (2019)

2020s

South Korea (2020)
China (2021)
Slovakia (2021)
Monaco (2022)
San Marino (2022)
Uruguay (2022)
Seychelles (2023)

151 out of 193 member states are not shrinking. Sixty-three have peaked, 42 are shrinking — many only recently, and the rest are growing. Which is to state, based on known data, the apparent conclusion faces us.

The United Nations’ World Population Prospects 2024 approximates a peak of 10.3 billion in the mid-2080s, the Institute for Health Metrics and Evaluation (IHME) in The Lancet estimated a peak of 9.73 billion in 2064, and the Wittgenstein Centre’s 2023 estimate is a peak of 10.13 billion in 2080.

This means 29 years on the earlier extreme up to 64 years on the later extreme until the peak human population. The reality: The likelihood sits somewhere between those antipodean projected extremes. Population decline, as an absolute global issue, will become urgent about two generations from now if population growth is simply the idea.

This is both a that and a why issue. If you argue that population should increase without a reason, then you ignore the most important question: What quality of life is desired for all human beings with the population? This becomes a valuable question for the constituents of global eudaimonia. (Only from the perspective of homo sapiens.)

Having population growth for the sake of more people seems narrow, to say the least. If the only other option is the nihilistic, suicidal decline of the species, then the false dichotomy takes on an international, species-wide caricature. Another option is sustainable population growth. Experts have proposed this.

Until space mining becomes practicable, easily accessible resources on Earth remain finite. Sustainable population growth provides the benefits of resource balance, economic resilience, higher quality of life, environmental protection, social equity, and climate adaptability.

The most significant issue facing humanity is anthropogenic climate change. Climate systems respond to physical inputs, not human governance failures or political boundaries. Growth for growth’s sake is uninformed and valueless. Regression for the desired decline of humanity can be seen as nihilistic, another valuelessness.

Sustainable growth harbours the non-polyannish universalist values of human rights, empiricism of science, and compassion of a humane consideration of every person, young and old. Now, with humanistic values, if we want sustainable growth, what works?

Fundamentally, until synthetic means of human gestation exist, which remain scientifically feasible while complex, universal concern and evidence depict one approximate half of humanity: women, and trans people, with relevant reproductive mechanics intact.

For those who want to have children and for those who want to support their free, uncoerced decision to have children, population dynamics tells us some things: equal parental leave, affordable childcare, flexible family-friendly workplaces, support for dual-earner families, reproductive autonomy and healthcare access, and shared domestic responsibilities.

Another social factor is valuing family and children. Some conservative and libertarian commentators have proposed this. That’s true. However, what better way to support this through funding, policy, and role alignment than by establishing a comprehensive program grounded in the reality of shared values—values that only appear to be superficially or paradoxically opposed?

However, children and families are highly personal and individual choices. Some people believe relationships are not for them. Children are not for them. Thus, the messaging should be informed, culturally appropriate, and targeted in an evidence-based manner to those who want either or both, then providing a culture and infrastructure environment in which the sustainable growth models can flourish, while targeting anthropogenic climate change and other problems.

A values-driven, evidence-based approach to population policy can foster a sustainable and worthwhile world in which people who want children are empowered to have them and humanity grows in balance with nature.

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#climateAdaptation #GlobalEudaimonia #PopulationDecline #ReproductiveAutonomy #SustainableGrowth

Global Fertility Rates Decline: Economic Impacts and Population Shifts

Global fertility rates have been steadily declining for the last 60 years, with serious implications for both economies and demographics, particularly in Western countries, as well as in China and Russia. While there has been significant population growth since 1960, the current slow growth rate is ... [More info]

Humanity Will Stop Growing Within 55 Years—After That, It’ll Start Shrinking

#science #biology #geography #sociology #populationdecline #populationscience

Great People Shortage: US Economy Will Get Walloped by Population Drop

America is about to tumble off the edge of a massive demographic cliff. The timing is no coincidence.…
#NewsBeep #News #Topstories #America #birth #college #employer #fewpeople #Headlines #high-incomecountry #Japan #massivedemographiccliff #populationdecline #Report #student #TopStories #university #woman #World #year
https://www.newsbeep.com/74561/

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#PopulationDecline
#BirthRate2025
#LowestFertilityCountries
#DemographicChallenge
#SouthKoreaBirthRate
#ChinaPopulationCrisis
#JapanDemographics
#EuropeBirthDecline
#FertilityRateDrop
#PopulationTrends
#BabyBonus
#IVFSupport
#DecliningPopulation
#WorldPopulation2025…

https://www.vrnewslive.com/free-ivf-child-birth-got-6lacs-by-goverment/

South Korea expands tax incentives for second home purchases and boosts public housing acquisitions in regional areas to counter population decline and revive local property markets.
#YonhapInfomax #SecondHome #TaxIncentives #KoreaLandHousingCorp #PopulationDecline #UnsoldHousingInventory #Economics #FinancialMarkets #Banking #Securities #Bonds #StockMarket
https://en.infomaxai.com/news/articleView.html?idxno=77020

Japan's native population decline is getting worse, with a recent government report showing that it fell by over 900,000 in 2024.

Check out the link in bio for more details.

#japannews #explorejapan #japanesepolitics #discoveryjapan #日本好きな人と繋がりたい #おしえてさかまた #expatsinjapan #foreignerinjapan #rorshokjapan #英語学習 #ニュース #英語勉強 #learnenglishdaily #populationdecline #birthrate #agingpopulation #japanesenationals #deathrate

(2) Japan's native population decline is getting worse, with a recent government report showing that it fell by over 900,000 in 2024.

(3) Japan's Sanseito party said that reporters from news media outlets will have to preregister if they want to ask questions at one of the party’s conferences.

#japannews #explorejapan #japanesepolitics #discoveryjapan #japantravels #日本好きな人と繋がりたい #おしえてさかまた #expatsinjapan #foreignerinjapan #rorshokjapan #英語学習 #ニュース #英語勉強 #learnenglishdaily #populationdecline #birthrate #agingpopulation #japanesenationals #deathrate #sanseito #神谷宗幣