November 7, 2025: The quantity and qualities of people in East Asia are changing. The populations of China, Japan, Taiwan, South Korea, and Russia are aging and shrinking, while India, the ...

In 2025, ten countries hold over half the world's population. China and India lead, with Asia and Africa driving future ...

It is often said that demographics are destiny, but at a macroeconomic level, ageing societies do not need to turn into the economic graveyards that pessimists assert they will. There are important, ...

Hindus are the fourth-largest religious category, after Christians, Muslims and religiously unaffiliated people. The Asia-Pacific region is home to 99% of the global Hindu population, with around 95% ...

More than 140M girls globally considered ‘missing’ due to prenatal gender selection, according to UN Population Fund - ...

Parts of Asia and various small island nations are among the most densely populated countries in the world, according to data from the World Bank. The findings, mapped by Newsweek, show that while ...

In the five months since its launch, ChatGPT has been used to generate student essays, write wedding vows, and compose rousing sermons for pastors and rabbis. Now, a Japanese city is turning to the AI ...

As of 2020, the Asia-Pacific region is home to 4.5 billion people, 10% more than in 2010. This large and religiously diverse region – where no single religious group constitutes a majority of the ...

Remember “The Population Explosion”? That 1990 book terrified academics, scientists and just plain people with its predictions that mankind could be doomed because soon there’d simply be too many of ...