The Russia-Ukraine war has accelerated the population decline. A shrinking population threatens Russia's economy and could result in worker shortages and low growth. Russia's economy has a dire ...

Russia has moved in recent weeks to push for the adoption of a number of measures to avert a severe demographic crisis that has been compounded by President Vladimir Putin's war in Ukraine. Valery ...

The demographic issue is ‘killing’ both Greece and Cyprus and this problem is the largest they face, Greek deputy foreign minister Ioannis Loverdos said on Wednesday. “We need to change this course,” ...

Across the world, governments adopted population-trimming policies, from massively subsidized birth control to promoting two-worker households to China's draconian "one child" policy. Getty Images I ...

Officials have warned Russian President Vladimir Putin that a demographic crisis could mean the country he leads will be short millions of workers by the end of the decade. In a meeting reported by ...

Russian President Vladimir Putin has been focused on dealing with Russia’s demographic crisis from his first day on the job, but the population is still shrinking slowly. Now he is having another ...

Think of global population problems and you might think of the growing number of people in the world – currently about 8 billion – and our collective toll on the planet. But due to people having fewer ...

Economists, tech elites and politicians have expressed concern regarding the sharp decline in birth rates in many countries. Falling fertility rates in advanced economies and emerging markets (such as ...