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12-Mar-18 Korea has reported more deaths than births for the first time, amid a plunging fertility rate, raising questions about its economic model, with increasing competition from neighbour China and the growing threat from artificial intelligence and automation. [image: Reuters / Kai Pfaffenbach]
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02-Feb-18 Healthcare spending in Singapore is expected to grow to USD10 bn in 2018 and will overtake education expenditure in the next 10 years, due to the ageing population, as more hospitals, polyclinics and nursing homes will be needed. [image: Singapore Business Review]
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02-Feb-18 By 2030, 25% of Singaporeans will be 65 or older and according to Health Minister Gan Kim Yong, "With an ageing population, Singapore must transform the way it delivers healthcare by taking a multidisciplinary, person-centric approach." [image: Today]
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18-Jan-18 Births in mainland China fell by 3.5% to 17 million in 2017. The fall in the number of births came despite a 2016 move to relax China’s "one-child-policy" as parents too other factors into account, such as education costs. [image: Reuters / Stringer]
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23-Dec-17 Japanese births are expected to total 941,000 in 2017, the lowest tally in statistics going back to 1899, likely resulting in a natural decline in population of more than 400,000 as deaths mark a postwar peak. [image: Ministry of Health, Labor and Welfare / Nikkei Asian Review]
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