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Population growth slows in crowded Tokyo
TOKYO >> The growth in the number of Japanese nationals living in Tokyo has slowed as fewer people have moved to the capital following the COVID-19 outbreak. As of Jan. 1, the population of Japanese nationals in Tokyo had grown by 39,493, according to a survey, and the population was up 0.3% from the previous …
The impact of the pandemic on population growth in the Pacific Northwest
A great story of the COVID-19 pandemic has centered around where people decide to move, especially since many workers are no longer tied to their trips to the office. In Washington state, the Office of Financial Management publishes an annual review of every population center statewide. The growth rate is calibrated for the month of …
Official warns Iran’s rapidly declining population growth rate
One official said Iran now has the lowest birth rate in the Middle East after experiencing the fastest decline in births in the past three decades. Saleh Ghasemi, head of the Center for Strategic Population Research, told a local news agency that the current birth rate is 1.6 for every woman of childbearing age. He …
Hopefully the new family planning policy will lead to healthy population growth – Opinion
WEI XUEMING / FOR CHINA DAILY Editor’s Note: China has achieved unprecedented economic achievements over the past decades thanks to the demographic dividends it has enjoyed. But the declining fertility rate threatens to rob the country of those demographic dividends, so it has relaxed family planning policy further to prevent it from happening, writes a …
York County’s Under-18 Population Growth Rate Ninth Highest in State Over 10 Years | Latest news
YORK – York County’s under-18 population growth rate was the ninth highest in the state between 2010 and 2020, according to census statistics broken down by David Drozd of the Center for Research on Public Affairs of the University of Nebraska-Omaha. In 2010, York County had 3,058 youth aged 18 and under. In 2020, the …