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Demographics and population

  • Monday, 31 March, 2025
    Italy’s births hit record low as Meloni struggles to halt population decline

    Number of babies born drops by 2.6% while country grapples with sudden rise in emigration

    A man pushes a pram past a dog in the street
  • Friday, 28 March, 2025
    Claer Barrett
    Rachel Reeves’ Isa reforms must be designed with Gen Z in mind

    The chancellor’s plan to revolutionise retail investment needs young investors

    Parents with a  young baby pore over papers next to an open laptop on a table
  • Thursday, 27 March, 2025
    Financial literacy
    A third of Gen Z invest by ‘early adulthood’, poll finds

    Regulator concerned over the number of young people putting money into crypto

    A woman watches stock charts on her smartphone
  • Tuesday, 25 March, 2025
    Sarah O'Connor
    A white-collar world without juniors?

    Professional business models may need to change if novices lose the opportunities to learn and progress when AI takes over their work

    Surgeons carry out a surgery with a da Vinci Xi robotic surgical system
  • Monday, 24 March, 2025
    Patrick Jenkins
    Pensions risk: the downside of weight-loss drugs

    The health benefits could be so extreme that it upends the annuity market, hitting retirement incomes and insurers

    A production line of Wegovy injection pens
  • Saturday, 22 March, 2025
    News in-depthChinese society
    China spends big on its ageing pets

    Demographic shift underlines emerging opportunities in country’s vast consumer market

    A dog receives acupuncture treatment at a pet hospital in Shenyang, in northeastern China’s Liaoning province
  • Monday, 17 March, 2025
    US politics & policy
    Young Americans lose trust in the state

    Gallup poll highlights that confidence in the apparatus of government has fallen dramatically

    Montage of a man and woman facing away, line chart and the White House
  • Sunday, 16 March, 2025
    South Korea society
    Korea’s academic race pushes half of under-6s into ‘cram’ schools

    Rising education costs and intense competition pile pressure on households and feed into demographic crisis

    A South Korean father reads a book to his daughter on a couch, while his son plays in the foreground at their apartment filled with toys and bright decorations
  • Saturday, 15 March, 2025
    Nathan Valbonesi
    Who inherits? A fraught question for those with no children

    It’s an existential debate and it can lead to a dark place

    Illustration of a large banknote with a question mark in the centre and small figures sat on it talking
  • Friday, 14 March, 2025
    Generation Z
    ‘Gen Z is more anxious, lonely and poorer than other generations’

    Ed Elson, writer and co-host of Prof G Markets podcast, offers an explanation to the question he receives most often

    A montage featuring Ed Elson at the centre, with images in the background of young people looking at smartphones, a PC, holding a baby and reading a book. A representation of a chart runs across the image
  • Friday, 7 March, 2025
    Isa Guide 2025
    Maxed-out Junior Isas up nearly 50% in a year

    Latest figures show strong rebound in numbers filling up the £9,000 annual limit

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  • Friday, 7 March, 2025
    Nestlé S.A.
    Nestlé says parents with fewer children buy more expensive baby food

    World’s largest food company says fall in number of children per household has driven ‘premiumisation’

    Rows of Nestlé NAN baby products
  • Friday, 7 March, 2025
    Special ReportWomen in Business
    Why having a baby remains a career obstacle for women

    More mothers work but their earnings and promotions stagnate

    A woman with a baby stroller walking down a city street, with a pedestrian footbridge in the background
  • Monday, 3 March, 2025
    Chinese politics & policy
    China adviser pushes for lower marriage age to boost births

    Thousands of delegates gather in Beijing for annual meeting of country’s rubber-stamp parliament

    Couples pose for wedding pictures by the sea in Shandong province
  • Friday, 28 February, 2025
    Q&AThe Big Question
    The Big Question: why do women live longer than men?

    The answer still puzzles scientists, but there are some clues of what might be behind the gender gap in life expectancy

    FT montage of a question mark surrounded by female symbols
  • Thursday, 27 February, 2025
    Japan births fall to lowest in 125 years

    Number of babies born declines 5% despite efforts to boost fertility rate

    A baby girl wrapped in a soft, pink knitted blanket sleeping on a fluffy white surface. Her tiny hand is visible near her face
  • Thursday, 27 February, 2025
    Leo Lewis
    Steak mousse and a vibrating sofa: Japan shows the way for baby boomers

    The practical impact of mass ageing has suddenly become more dramatic and potent

    Senior women and female nurse stretching
  • Wednesday, 26 February, 2025
    South Korea society
    Baby bump in South Korea as fertility rate rises for first time in 9 years

    Surge in marriages after pandemic spurs hopes country’s demographics may have turned a corner

    Three men wearing blue scrub suits hold their newborn babies at a hospital in Goyang, South Korea
  • Friday, 21 February, 2025
    The Economics Show podcast34 min listen
    Why are birth rates falling? With Alice Evans

    Birth rates are plunging in most countries

  • Thursday, 20 February, 2025
    Work Watch
    Age discrimination payouts are getting bigger

    High value cases of dismissed senior leaders show older workers must be taken seriously

    Montage image of an older woman looking worriedly at her computer with triangles and pound signs in the background
  • Friday, 14 February, 2025
    News in-depthChinese society
    China’s marriage problem: fewer young people, and fewer weddings

    Ageing population, falling birth rates and aversion to matrimony compound demographic challenge

    A couple pose for a wedding photo shoot on the Bund in Shanghai
  • Tuesday, 11 February, 2025
    Chinese society
    China unveils ‘silver trains’ for ageing tourists to keep economy on track

    Rail services catering to the elderly come as Beijing grapples with declining population and slower growth

    Passengers take a train at Yantai Station in China’s eastern Shandong province
  • Tuesday, 11 February, 2025
    Special ReportThe Future of Cities
    Thwarted ambition triggers dissent among Africa’s urban young

    Gap between education and opportunity is fostering generational frustration and protests as cities expand

    Commuters wait for buses in Nairobi’s Central Business District
  • Tuesday, 11 February, 2025
    Special ReportThe Future of Cities
    Low-rise Sydney plans on density to tackle housing squeeze

    With young people being priced out, the city aims to concentrate development around transport hubs

    A panoramic view of a suburban neighborhood with tree-lined streets, modern buildings, and a city skyline in the background
  • Sunday, 9 February, 2025
    The Baby Gap
    ‘At risk of extinction’: South Korea’s second city fears demographic disaster

    Busan is shrinking faster than any other metropolitan area in a country with the world’s lowest fertility rate

    a montage with two young people in front of a chart showing Busan’s demographic decline
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