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With births falling last year to a record low, Japan's population is likely to decline by about 30% to 87 million by 2070, with four people in every 10 aged 65 or more.

Most of the world's live births will be occurring in poorer countries, according to a study.

Japan said will take "unprecedented steps" to cope with low birthrate, expanding childcare and promoting wage hikes for younger workers.

A drop that comes despite a slew of govt efforts to support parents, amid increasing alarm that China become demographically imbalanced.

Miho Iwasawa, the IPSS's director of population dynamics research, said people were getting married later, leading to a decline in births.

In a statement today, DOSM said male babies outnumbered female babies with 56,572 births as compared to female babies (52,825 births).

To be eligible for the gift, their births have to be registered at any NRD office in the state between Aug 31 and Sept 16, Norazlee said.

Single mothers have it rough as out-of-wedlock births are frowned upon, and where only married women can claim maternity benefits.

The new reproductive coverage could help lower out-of-pocket costs and benefit couples in lower income brackets seeking to have babies.

Malaysia will reach the ageing nation status earlier than expected following a decline in the number of births in the country.

Mohd Uzir said it was anticipated earlier that lockdown during COVID-19 would lead to baby boom but statistics showed otherwise.

None of the hospitals in the province, both private and public had any records of such births at their facility, the govt statement said.

The move to prevent births among Uyghur and other minorities is in sharp contrast with China's wider birth policies.

China introduced the one-child policy in the late 1970s in a dramatic effort to slow rapid population growth, before reversing it in 2016.

Singapore has one of the world's lowest birth rates, which the government has been struggling to raise for years.