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20 Most Diverse Countries in Asia

In this article, we will list the 20 most diverse countries in Asia. If you want to skip our discussion about diversity in the United States and its benefits, go to the 5 Most Diverse Countries in ...
Newsweek

Population Crises Threaten Asia’s Economic Juggernauts

East Asia's four largest economies are threatened with a declining population, threatening their long-term competitiveness. Reversing this trend through increased births seems unlikely given how the ...

Move aside Tokyo, the world has a new largest city

With an estimated population of nearly 42 million residents, Indonesian capital Jakarta soared from 33rd place to surpass ...
Newsweek

How East Asia’s Population Crunch Could Lead to Crisis

The fast-shifting demographic landscape of East Asia's top economies is a slow-moving crisis, one analyst said at a talk hosted by U.S. think tank the Asia Society Policy Institute last week. Others ...
CNN

Children aged 14 or younger now make up less than 12% of this country’s population

Japan’s estimated child population has shrunk for the 44th straight year to a record low, government data showed Sunday, as the country grapples with a demographic crisis underscored by falling birth ...
CNN

Pope Francis’ Mass in one of world’s most Catholic nations gathers almost half its population

Pope Francis received a rapturous welcome from the tiny Southeast Asian nation of East Timor, one of the world’s most Catholic countries, where almost half the population turned out for an open-air ...