As reported by JapanToday, Japan’s national population is back on its way up again after three consecutive annual declines, which should be temporarily encouraging news for those overly concerned with the birthrate falling too low to feasibly...

Population explosion is a global reality. Everywhere there is an increase in the birth rate and decline of death rates. Life expectancy is becoming better and people are living longer everywhere across the world. It is commonly said in India...

Do you know which is the most fertile country of year 2006 in Europe? According to French government’s statistical office INSEE now every woman in France has two babies that is the highest in European countries. Jean-Michel Charpin, head of...

An increased number of Japanese women are staying away from pregnancy out of the fear of loosing their job when they come back. A situation like this has led to a sharp fall in country’s birthrate. The government is planning to take adequate...

A recent report speaks of speed dating as a rising trend in Japan, which is the initiative taken by the Government and also by certain firms to boost the fallen birth rate in Japan. These speed dating parties gives scope to men and women to find...

Europe is facing a shocking increase of premature birth rate. Experts believe that women’s way of living life can be a cause of it. Researchers find difficult to search the basic cause but obesity, smoking and social class can be the...

I was highly amazed by an article published in the Nepalese English neswspaper, Gorkhapatra National Daily, on 21st October 2005. The article, titled ‘Muslim women in Saptari use family planning means’, read that more and more Saptari...