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8/1/2021: Taiwan faces a burgeoning demographic crisis similar to those affecting South Korea and Japan. The birth rate has been falling continuously since 2000, a period where wages have remained stubbornly stagnant.

Source: CNA

4/1/2021: The world's 12th-largest economy has one of its longest life expectancies and one of its lowest birthrates, a combination that presents a looming demographic disaster.

Source: CNA

26/7/2020: Rising consumption by the affluent has a far greater environmental impact than the birth rate in poorer nations, says George Monbiot.

Source: The Guardian

15/7/2020: The number of people in the world could be 2 billion fewer than UN forecasts by 2100, according to a new study. With declining fertility rates and ageing populations, experts predict a global shift in power dynamics.

Source: DW

11/2/2020: Egypt's population milestone highlights the threat of overpopulation in a poverty-stricken country where many live in crowded mega-cities.

Source: News24

6/12/2019: The momentous global changes in humanity’s geographic distribution pose serious social, economic, political and environmental challenges and disquieting implications for the future. The proportion of world population living in more developed regions is half its 1950 level and is expected to decline further to 13 percent by 2050.

Source: Inter Press Service

11/11/2019: An additional 53 million women and girls are using modern contraceptives over the past seven years in 69 of the world’s lowest-income countries, according to a report. This figure falls flat of the goal set in 2012 of reaching an additional 120 million women and girls .

Source: Devex

25/9/2019: The United Kingdom government’s £600 million ($750 million) pledge to support family planning in low-income countries has been applauded by advocates in the wake of opposition to the issue from the United States and other conservative nations.

Source: Devex

16/7/2019: Many women and girls “still face enormous challenges to their health, well-being and human rights”, Secretary-General António Guterres told a High-level General Assembly meeting convened to mark the 25th anniversary of the International Conference on Population and Development. 

Source: UN News

11/7/2019: UNFPA statistics from 51 countries show that only three in five married women make their own decisions about intimacy with their partner, use of contraception, and their healthcare. In some of the least developed countries, it is only 1 in 14 women who have such power. 

Source: Inter Press Service