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“Births have declined steadily since 2008 and fell last year to around 355,000, the lowest number since Italy's unification in 1861, while deaths have risen as the population ages.”

“Births have declined steadily since 2008 and fell last year to around 355,000, the lowest number since Italy's unification in 1861, while deaths have risen as the population ages.”

“People over 60 in France make up a quarter of the population but own 60% of France’s wealth, according to the OFCE think tank.”

“People over 60 in France make up a quarter of the population but own 60% of France's wealth, according to the OFCE think tank.”

“As for Putin's Russia, although a threat to Europe, it is less formidable than the Soviet Union was in 1956, and has a smaller population and less industrial capacity.”

“…t of the European Central Bank and former prime minister of Italy, made the disparity especially clear in his 2024 report on the future of European competitiveness: No EU company with a market capitalization above 100 billion euros ($112 billion) had been…”

“A new far-right party, Alianca Catalana, or Catalan Alliance (AC), which wants a crackdown on migration and has targeted Islam as a threat to society, has surged in the polls in a region with the largest Muslim population in Spain.”

“In Spain, its breeding population declined sharply, reaching just 20 pairs in 2009.”

“Nicola Perugini, a senior lecturer in international relations at the University of Edinburgh, warned that the re-election of the leader, who is wanted by the International Criminal Court (ICC), would see Gaza’s population continue to struggle under…”

“Our country is not like a segregated 1930-era city, where Black people live in a ghetto, Chinese people live in Chinatown, Italian people live in Little Italy, and so on.”

“…racy Institute last month, 38 percent of Jewish Israelis and 46 percent of Palestinian citizens of Israel – who make up about 20 percent of the population – chose the economy and the cost of living as the most important or second-most important election…”

“In Italy, where the number of centenarians has more than doubled since 2009, 3.5% of women who make it to 70 will achieve the milestone.”

“On a Mediterranean island off Italy, a conservation project aimed at removing an invasive rodent produced a change that could be seen in the seabird colony.”

“It begins with a small, abandoned stone terrace in Castronovo, a hilltop village with a population of 2800.”

“Monday’s intergenerational report showed that more Australians will be dying than being born in 40 years’ time, a point already reached by countries including South Korea, Italy, Germany and Japan.”

“Japan, Italy and South Korea have already passed the point where their populations are no longer growing thanks to 'natural increase', and from the 2060s onwards Australia will join them, meaning the population will shrink without ongoing migration.”

“Japan’s population peaked at about 128 million in 2008, with the National Institute of Population and Social Security Research projecting that it will fall to 87 million by 2070 – a decline of roughly 30 percent.”

“In this week’s conversation, Yascha Mounk and Judith Dada discuss what the decline of German industry and infrastructure reveals about the broader crisis of the German model, why the European tech sector is so far behind China and the United States, and what…”

“Reason's October 2026 cover story is an expansive exploration of prison reform in America: - Book One: Proto-Prisons and the Jacksonian Era (1790–1870) - Book Two: The Progressive Era and Decline (1870–1955) - Book Three: The South (1870–1970) - Book Four:…”

“Since Germany reunified, the region has seen its population decline more sharply than any other state, with the number of inhabitants having fallen by more than a quarter between 1990 and 2024.”

“…d have undermined the reactionary authority of the Botswana chiefs, and there was nobody in Botswana who could have ensured that Botswana’s diamonds would go to the benefit of the whole population and the national government rather than to an individual…”

“A growing number of nations, including Chile, China, Italy, Japan, Poland and South Korea, have seen birthrates fall to levels similar to Singapore, where demographers say rapid population aging and decline are possible.”