The population of China decreased for the second year in a row and amounted to 1 billion 409 million people. During the year, the number of Chinese people decreased by 2 million people.

According to the UN classification, Turkey has entered the category of countries with an "elderly" population. By the end of 2023, more than 10 percent of the country's population will be 65 and older. This indicator is expected to reach 22.6% by 2060.

The South Korean company Booyoung offers its employees a bonus of 100 million won ($72.3 thousand) for each child born in their family. In this way, the company wants to contribute to increasing the birth rate in the country.

Since 1950, the world's average fertility rate has fallen from about 5 children per woman to 2.3. Humanity is approaching the threshold of 2.1 needed to maintain a sustainable population, any less than that, humanity will begin to decline over time.

The population of EU countries where deaths exceed births will increase in 2023 due to migration. During the last year, the total population increased from 447.6 million to 449.2 million people.

Last year, a record 730,000 babies were born in Japan, while the number of deaths in the same period was 1.58 million, breaking the record. The number of foreigners in the country also exceeded 3 million for the first time, making up about 3% of the total population. Polls show that young Japanese are increasingly reluctant to marry or have children.