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Pope Francis urges Italians to have more children, welcome migrants

Pope Francis traveled to southern Italy on Sunday to close out an Italian church congress that coincided with Italy's national election, and delivered a message that hit on key domestic campaign issues including immigration. Neither Francis nor his hosts referred to the vote during the open-air Mass, though Italy's bishops conference had earlier urged Italians to cast ballots in the eagerly watched election that could bring Italy its first far-right government since World War II. At the end of the outdoor Mass in Matera, Francis spoke off the cuff asking Italians to have more children. I'd like to ask Italy: More births, more children, Francis said. Italy has one of the lowest birth rates in the world and Francis has frequently lamented its demographic winter. Far-right leader Giorgia Meloni, who campaigned on a God, family and homeland mantra, has also called for Italy to reverse its demographic trends by proposing bigger financial incentives for couples to have children. Francis

Population collapse due to low birth rates a bigger risk than climate: Musk

This is not the first time that Tesla's top boss has warned about declining birth rates. In June 2022, he also shared data from The Wall Street Journal

China's life expectancy goes up to 77.93 yrs amid falling birth rates

Life expectancy in China has increased by over 0.6 of a year to 77.93 years even as the world's second-largest economy grappled with a demographic crisis due to declining birth rates

China may turn to forced pregnancy to tackle declining birth rate: Report

As China faces a scenario of negative population growth, the government has started to force its citizens to marry early and have at least three children each.

One in every 36 infants still dies before first birthday in India: Data

According to the new data, present level of IMR (28 infant deaths per thousand live births, for the year 2020) is less than one-fourth as compared to 1971 (129 infant deaths per thousand live births).

With marriages declining, birth rates reach lowest ever in China: Report

A sharp decline in the number of marriage registrations, accompanied by the ageing of married couples has led to birth rates in China hitting the lowest ever levels, according to a media report.

China's births hit historic low, a political problem for Beijing

The demographic crisis, a challenge to the economy, also signals a limit to the reach of the government, which has struggled recently to grow the population

Chinese county to give cash handouts to couples to have babies

A county in western China will give cash subsidies to couples to have children, the latest push to encourage more births in a country where the population is set to decline in coming years

China approves three-child policy with sops to prevent dip in birth rates

The revised Population and Family Planning Law, which allows Chinese couples to have three children

Population control fiasco

The ill-advised two-child policy must be reviewed

9 months after lockdowns, US births see biggest decline since 1973

The latest data are early evidence of the drastic impact from the health crisis on birth rates, with the full effect expected to show in 2021 data.

China's 3-child policy won't drastically raise birthrate: Top economist

China's recently-announced three-child policy will not help the country to drastically raise the birthrate, said a top Chinese economist, adding that country will struggle to raise retirement age

Japan's birth rate fell to record low in 2020 amid coronavirus pandemic

The number of births fell to 8,40,832 in 2020, down 2.8 per cent from a year earlier and the lowest since records began in 1899.

Drop in China's Xinjiang birthrate largest in recent history: Report

Xinjiang in far western China had the sharpest known decline in birthrates between 2017 and 2019 of any territory in recent history, according to a new analysis by an Australian think tank

China's population growth slows; nation becomes older and urbanised

There were 1.412 billion people in China last year, says the National Bureau of Statistics in its once-a-decade census report.

Immigrants are a gift: Germany learns from solution for birth rate crisis

It's useful to bear the German experience in mind as the US again tackles its 'immigration crisis'.

US birth rate falls 4% in 2020 to lowest point in more than a century

The US birth rate fell 4% last year, the largest single-year decrease in nearly 50 years, according to a government report being released Wednesday

China birth rate lowest in 2019 since 1949 as workforce continues to shrink

To avoid a demographic crisis, the government relaxed its one-child policy in 2016 to allow people to have two children, but the change has not resulted in more pregnancies

Despite 2-child policy, China sees fewest births in almost 60 years in 2018

The number of babies born last year fell by some 2 million from 2017, to 15.23 million, it was the least since 1961 and the third-lowest since the founding of the People's Republic of China in 1949

Hindus will witness a dramatic decline in births between 2055-2060: Report

Islam the world's largest religion by 2075