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UN says world population to reach 9.8 bln in 2050

Theworld'scurrentpopulationof7.6billionwillballoonto9.8billionin2050,withIndia'snumberstosurpassChina'sinjustsevenyears,aUNreportsaidonWednesday.Nigeriawillover

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Minority village has used "magic wells" to control population for centuries

Wunai Yinjiao has been making sure her fellow villagers don't have more children than they want for nearly 20 years.

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Family-planning policy may need more "adjustment"

The country's dwindling labor force might negatively impact the economy

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Japan's total population drops by 962,607, first-ever decline

The total population of Japan has dropped by nearly a million over the last five years, the first decline since records began almost 100 years ago.

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Only 18% of couples in China apply to have second child

China's latest family planning policy, which allows all parents to have a second child, is facing a major setback and demographic change seems irreversible, sohu.com reported on October 20.

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China eases household registration in urbanization drive

​China has pledged to help 100 million migrants gain urban household registration, or hukou, as part of an urbanization drive to have 45 percent of its registered population living in cities by 2020.

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Australia's Queensland gov't gets public involved on Koala decline through online survey

​The Australian Queensland government is doing all that it can to save the iconic cuddly Koala bears numbers from dwindling any further.

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Sweden sees major population growth mainly due to immigration

The Swedish population is growing faster, mainly due to immigration, and is now nearing the 10 million mark, it was reported Wednesday.

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China's working age population to fall 23 pct by 2050

China's working age population would fall more than 23 percent to around 700 million by the year 2050, according to data released Friday by a human resource official.

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Situation in Syria progressively deteriorating: human rights official

The head of the Independent Commission of Inquiry on Syria warned Tuesday that ongoing fighting and systemic human rights violations were a matter of extreme concern for the country's desperate population and attempts to broker a political end to the five-year conflict.

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China's telecom operators vow to expand 4G services

China's top three telecom operators unveiled their plans on Tuesday to improve 4G services as part of the country's efforts to update its information infrastructure.

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Declining population adds to trauma of revitalizing disaster-hit Tohoku area in Japan

​As the five-year intensive reconstruction period approaches its deadline in late March, the Japanese Tohoku region devastated by a monstrous earthquake-triggered tsunami on March 11, 2011 is still struggling to be revitalized, with a declining population making the huge projects ever harder to complete.

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Chinese bid farewell to one-child policy with law amended

​Chinese lawmakers adopted an amended family planning law Sunday, a historic move allowing all couples to have two children amid efforts of balancing the country's population structure.

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China mulls law amendment to advocate "one couple, two children"

Chinese lawmakers are considering amending the family planning law to advocate couples having two children amid efforts to counter shrinkage of the work force and ageing population.

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More centenarians in Australia than ever before: stats

​More Australians than ever before are reaching the milestone of turning 100 years of age, according to new figures released by the Australian Bureau of Statistics (ABS) on Thursday.

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Change to ease drop in workforce

Researchers worry new births will prove 'too little and too late'.Employers and local governments don't need experts to tell them about the impact of the "one-child" family planning policy on the labor force.

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China to allow two children for all couples

China will allow all couples to have two children, abandoning its decades-long one-child policy, the Communist Party of China (CPC) announced after a key meeting on Thursday.