China’s population shrank last year for the first time in more than six decades, official data showed Tuesday, as the birth rate slows in the face of mounting financial pressures and shifting social attitudes.
President Ferdinand Marcos Jr. has vowed that his administration will continue to safeguard the environment because it benefits the population.
The world’s population is expected to reach eight billion on November 15, the UN forecast Monday in a report that said India will surpass China as the most populous country on earth in 2023.
A couple should only have a maximum of three children, according to President Rodrigo Duterte.
Russia’s population declined by more than one million people in 2021, the statistics agency Rosstat reported Friday, a historic drop not seen since the collapse of the Soviet Union.
A leader of the House of Representatives on Sunday urged the government to deploy mobile vaccination services to bring COVID-19 shots closer to hard-to-reach and high-risk sub-groups of the population.
Malacañang on Wednesday assured the Filipino people “will not rest” until the country has achieved population protection against the coronavirus disease (Covid-19).
The number of US residents who identify as “white” has fallen for the first time, according to the latest 2020 census data released Thursday.
Hong Kong’s population declined by 1.2 percent in the last year, including nearly 90,000 more residents departing than moving to the city, figures released Thursday showed, as Beijing cracked down on dissent and the pandemic kept the finance hub sealed off.
The government’s vaccination program against Covid-19 has fully inoculated more than 10 million Filipinos, Malacañang said.
