population decline

“There will be things that they will do which may trouble some of us.”

(Sept 28): Singapore’s population size barely grew, rising 0.1% in the 12 months through June as the number of non-residents declined, the first drop since at least 2010.

TOKYO (July 10): While the latest data shows that the number of Japanese shrank by a record in 2016, the demographic picture isn’t quite so bleak when you include the growing ranks of foreigners.