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...Reading the small print, it appears that the ONS has incorporated the latest births and deaths data, but has not updated its demographic assumptions on fertility and mortality for its forecast....
...In Hungary, famous for its extravagant payouts aimed at boosting the nation’s number of babies, fewer children were born last year than at any time since records began....
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...Demographer Francesco Billari, rector of Milan’s Bocconi University, said that reversing the trend would “take time and stability of policies . . . which should not be seen as partisan”....
...Another couple in Shanghai commissioned a constellation based on their baby daughter and had an image of her footprints inlaid on the car’s white dashboard....
...Generally, as countries become richer, women tend to have fewer babies — a trend reinforced by state policies such as the one-child rule China imposed between 1980 and 2016....
...A combination of postwar reconstruction, the establishment of international institutions, rising world trade and a baby boom resulted in high economic growth....
...Japan’s latest population numbers followed the release in February of a preliminary tally of the number of babies born in 2023: a record low of 758,631, down 5.1 per cent from the previous year....
...It’s possible that this consumer product trend is merely another waypoint along Hollywood’s eternal IP hunt, and it’ll move on soon enough....
...There is no medical school in this country that has fully incorporated AI.”...
...It’s a trend that has been met with enthusiasm and derision....
...I was out of trend. And after this I think there was quiet luxury, and I still believe I’m out of trend.” He smiles. “So maybe because I’m out of trend, I’m actually more trendy?”...
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...Even ageing US baby boomers are likely to be an inflationary force, since they have health, time and plenty of money to spend. Gold is historically an inflation hedge....
...Put very simply, to produce a bigger annual cohort of babies, Japan needs more and longer-lasting marriages, preferably by people starting younger....
...As a woman who chose not to have children in the 1980s, I was worried about global population trends and their effect on the environment even then....
...Consider the baby bust. Birth rates in rich countries are too low to maintain populations at their current level....
...But we do think trend-following applies nicely. You can also do trend-following in the classic equity factors, like value, quality or size, which tend to trend on a one- to 12-month basis....
...Others will decide their cheerful trend-breaking is the exception that proves a far more depressing rule among young Japanese....
...The drop, which was more than double that of the previous year, results from both the lowest number of babies being born since the founding of the People’s Republic of China in 1949 and the highest death...
...Other watches have incorporated non-drying paint, shredded banknotes and bits of scorpion and spider. “Looking back, I think I did too much crazy stuff,” he says....
...There might be less time for the theatre or reading, but watching babies and older children engage with the world inspires new ideas....
...“You see similar trends everywhere.”...
...The premier’s diminishing autonomy is part of a trend under Xi of rolling back his more reform-minded predecessors’ tentative efforts to achieve an at least nominal separation of government and party....
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