For eleven consecutive months, South Korea, which held the sad record of being the country with the lowest fertility rate in ...

South Korea is seeing an unexpected baby boom, with birth rates rising at a record pace during the first five months of the ...

THE nation registered record birth rate growth in the first five months of the year, a statistics agency official said.

Studies show that countries around the world will see their populations shrink by 2050. To combat demographic decline, a growing list of countries are implementing policies to try to encourage women ...

With the exception of a handful of countries in Africa, most countries in the world are not having enough children to replace ...

SEOUL — The number of births in South Korea rose last year for the first time in nine years, supported by an increase in marriages, preliminary data showed on Wednesday, indicating that the ...

SEOUL, July 29 (Xinhua) -- South Korea's total population slightly rose for the second straight year thanks to a rapid increase in foreign residents, statistical office data showed Tuesday.

Health Minister Dao Hong Lan issued a grave warning on World Population Day, saying that Vietnam's Total Fertility Rate (TFR) ...

The first nationwide subsidy program has been introduced by China to encourage population growth. The subsidy offers parents ...

The government will give families Rmb3,600 ($503) a year for each child under the age of three, state news agency Xinhua said on Monday. The subsidy will be applied from January 2025 but families with ...

The Ministry of Health has proposed allocating VND650 billion (US$25.5 million) to support women who give birth to two children before they turn 35.

A WOMAN from Xianning city, Hubei province in China, was sentenced to seven days of administrative detention after ...