Stance of this article] This article examines the final form of Japan's population size, social structure, and living environment when the declining birthrate and aging population have 'run their ...

Elderly people aged 75 or older will increase in number in Tokyo’s Chuo Ward, which is bustling with high-rise apartment buildings, at a steeper rate than anywhere else in Japan through 2050. At the ...

Younger Australians are better educated and likely to live and work longer, but are missing some of the early income and ...

Novel research shows that in approximately one third of countries and territories worldwide, population aging was the largest contributor to the growing burden of musculoskeletal disorders from 1990 ...

According to data compiled by the Japanese government, social security benefit costs will increase 1.6-fold from 2018 to ¥190 trillion in 2040. While Japan continues to shift towards a super-aging ...

Japan has been experiencing substantial growth in the proportion of their elderly population due to historically low fertility. Aging has strong adverse impacts on economic growth, productivity, ...

As recently as a decade ago, one of the major concerns of the world was about overpopulation. The few people predicting a coming age of depopulation or an age of population decline were not taken ...