African economic researchers have called on African governments to tackle unemployment among the youth who they said are more exposed to conflicts and illegal activities in the continent.
The world's population is unlikely to stabilize this century but instead keeps growing and could reach 11 billion by 2100, a new study using modern statistical tools said Thursday.
The population of permanent residents in Beijing exceeded 21 million by the end of 2013, the municipal bureau of statistics said Wednesday.
Almost a quarter of all New Zealanders were identified as disabled last year and the proportion is growing as the population ages, according to survey results released by a government statistics agency on Tuesday.
The number of new born babies of Japan hit a record low of 1,029,800 in 2013, leading to the fastest rate of natural population decline, local media reported Wednesday.
China's most populous province of Henan on Thursday relaxed its family planning policy to allow couples to have a second baby if either parent is an only child.
Southwest China's Chongqing Municipality on Wednesday relaxed the city's birth control policy by allowing couples to have a second baby if either parent is an only child, the local legislature said at a press conference.
New Zealand needs to significantly increase its annual intake of immigrants in order to lift overall economic growth, an independent economic think-tank said Monday.
China's working-age population dropped 2.44 million to 919.54 million in 2013, the second straight year of decline, the National Bureau of Statistics (NBS) said on Monday.
This year's Census results showed a quarter of New Zealand's population was born overseas and one in eight people living in New Zealand are Asian.
Australia's population is projected to double to 46 million by 2075, according to the latest population projections released by the Australian Bureau of Statistics (ABS) on Tuesday.
After China announced its decision to relax the one-child policy, heated discussion and controversy have broken out across the country. The new policy will allow couples to have two children if one of them is an only child.
When it comes to tackling China's aging population, the country's policy makers know time is not on their side.
Changes to China's one-child policy, in place for decades, have aroused heated discussion, with some demographers seeing the change as a step toward balanced population development.
Vietnam welcomed its 90 millionth citizen on Friday, as it ranks the 14th most populous country in the world and the third in the Southeast Asian.
There are some 1,980,200 foreigners living in Japan by the end of March this year, accounting for 1.54 percent of the total population, local media reported Thursday.
Myanmar Vice President Dr. Sai Mauk Kham has called for taking measures to prevent marriage under 18 years of age and having pregnancy before 20 years old and for assisting in reducing unwanted teenage pregnancy, official media reported Friday.
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