For one thing, demographic decline will put increasing pressure on the country’s military. Today, with more than 2 million ...

Japan is decades ahead of the rest of the world with an aging and shrinking population. There are some who claim we don’t know what will happen with future populations. However, the next 20 years are ...

Welkin Lei has been doing some paper-napkin calculations in his spare time and the numbers for having another child just don’t add up.

Blog posts represent the views of CFR fellows and staff and not those of CFR, which takes no institutional positions. The hukou system, established in the 1950s, required Chinese citizens to be ...

Despite India’s population being projected to outstrip China’s by at least 28 per cent by 2050, its absolute natural resources demand will not catch up to China's in that timeframe. This is due to ...