March 2025
20Mar

What Age Do People Around the World Think Is Best to Reach Major Life Milestones?

When is the right time in life to get married or have a child? What is the best age to buy a home? Is there an ideal age for retirement? We asked adults in 18 mostly middle-income countries what they think is the best age to reach these life milestones. Overall, there is a lot of agreement around the world. A chart showing The ideal ages for major life events, according to people in 18 nations On average across the countries...

March 20, 2025
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10Mar

America’s aging population faces a growing shortage of geriatric care

Jerry Gurwitz, a 68-year-old geriatrician based in Massachusetts, is at a tricky point in his career. He's spent decades taking care of older Americans, but now, as Gurwitz approaches the age of some of his own patients, he sees a brewing problem with his profession: there aren't many people willing to take his job, and he has serious doubts over whether there will be enough doctors to properly take care of people as they get older, he told Business Insider. Gurwitz,...

March 10, 2025
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10Mar

Singapore’s population is aging fast. It hopes AI can help manage its elderly care

From listening devices that detect falls to “patient sitter” systems in hospitals and robots helping with exercise in care homes, Singapore is looking to artificial intelligence to help manage the health of its elderly population. By 2030, a quarter of Singaporeans will be 65 or older — in 2010, the figure was one in 10 — and it’s estimated that around 6,000 nurses and care staff will need to be hired annually to meet Singapore’s health workforce targets. Technology is much needed to help fill the...

March 10, 2025
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06Mar

The U.S. has a record low fertility rate. Is that good news or bad news? It’s complicated.

The U.S. fertility rate — the average number of children each woman gives birth to — fell 22% between 1990 and 2023, according to the latest data from the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention’s National Center for Health Statistics (NCHS). It’s not a new trend; the decline began in 2007, just ahead of the 2008 recession. Coupled with the rapidly aging American population, the falling fertility rate has long made policymakers nervous about draining Social Security funds and generally causing...

March 6, 2025
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05Mar

The 2023 Latin America report of the Lancet Countdown on health and climate change: the imperative for health-centred climate-resilient development

By Stella M. Hartinger, Yasna K. Palmeiro-Silva, Camila Llerena-Cayo, Luciana Blanco-Villafuerte, Luis E. Escobar, Avriel Diaz, Juliana Helo Sarmiento, Andrés G. Lescano, Oscar Melo, David Rojas-Rueda, Bruno Takahashi, Max Callaghan, Francisco Chesini, Shouro Dasgupta, Carolina Gil Posse, Nelson Gouveia, Aline Martins de Carvalho, Zaray Miranda-Chacón, Nahid Mohajeri, Chrissie Pantoja, Elizabeth J. Z. Robinson, Maria Fernanda Salas, Raquel Santiago, Enzo Sauma, Mauricio Santos-Vega, Daniel Scamman, Milena Sergeeva, Tatiana Souza de Camargo, Cecilia Sorensen, Juan D. Umaña, Marisol Yglesias-González, Maria Walawender,...

March 5, 2025
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04Mar

South Korea’s birthrate rebounds, but is it sustainable?

After nearly a decade of birth rates in steady decline, South Korea reversed that trend to report a significant uptick in newborns in 2024. Announced by the government-run Statistics Korea agency on February 26, a total of 238,300 babies were born last year, up 3.6% from a record low of just 230,000 in 2023. And while the increase is certainly grounds for celebration in a nation that is recognized as one of the most rapidly contracting and aging in the world, analysts caution that...

March 4, 2025
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03Mar

Climate Change May Drive Premature Aging

A new USC Leonard Davis School of Gerontology study suggests greater exposure to extreme heat may accelerate biological aging in older adults, raising new concerns about how climate change and heat waves could affect long-term health and aging at the molecular level. People in neighborhoods that experience more days of high heat show greater biological aging on average than residents of cooler regions, said Jennifer Ailshire, senior author of the study and professor of gerontology and sociology at the USC Leonard Davis School. Biological...

March 3, 2025
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February 2025
28Feb

AI robots may hold key to nursing Japan’s ageing population

Recently in Tokyo an AI-driven robot leaned over a man lying on his back and gently put a hand on his knee and another on a shoulder and rolled him onto his side -- a manoeuvre used to change diapers or prevent bedsores in the elderly. The 150-kg (330 lb) artificial intelligence-driven humanoid robot called AIREC is a prototype future "caregiver" for Japan's rapidly ageing population and chronic shortage of aged-care workers. "Given our highly advanced ageing society and declining births,...

February 28, 2025
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27Feb

Chart of The Month: Declining Global Fertility Rates

The global fertility rate is expected to decline to 2.8 children born per female in 2025 from 3.1 a decade ago. Among the top 20 economies, the rate will fall to just 1.7, well below the replacement level of 2.1 (the level at which a population replaces itself naturally). Saudi Arabia is projected to have the highest fertility rate in this group, driven by cultural values, historical pronatalist policies, and social factors. Traditional views have promoted larger families, but...

February 27, 2025
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27Feb

South Korea’s fertility rate increases for first time in nine years amid marriage surge

South Korea’s birthrate rose for the first time in nearly a decade, preliminary data showed Wednesday, raising hopes that the country has started to turn a corner on its demographic crisis. The average number of babies per woman increased from 0.72 in 2023 to 0.75 last year, still the lowest in the world and far below the replacement rate of 2.1. SIGNALS Birthrate supported by surge in marriages after government measures A spike in marriages post-pandemic may be one factor driving the increase...

February 27, 2025
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