Japan experienced a historic decline in the number of newborns in 2023, coinciding with the country’s largest-ever population decrease.

Innovative forecasting methods predict that by mid-century, three-quarters of the world’s countries will fall below this replacement fertility threshold.

Japan’s birth rate fell to a new low in 2022, dropping below 800,000 for the first time in history, raising concerns about the demographic challenges facing the world’s oldest and most rapidly aging society.

India is expected to continue growing in terms of both population and economy. China, meanwhile, is unlikely to return to its heady pre-pandemic GDP growth rates.

Recent Arab and Western studies revealed a decline in the population growth of the Arab Gulf countries, which raised questions about the reasons behind this drop.