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Demographics and population

  • Sunday, 4 August, 2024
    Pilita Clark
    Beware the march of the childless voter

    JD Vance’s attack on people without kids flies in the face of demographic reality

    A person stands on the winner’s podium with two other people in runners up positions who have children in tow
  • Saturday, 3 August, 2024
    Chinese business & finance
    China’s urban pets forecast to outnumber toddlers this year

    Growing number of household animals amid declining human population forecast to build $12bn pet food market by 2030

    A Chinese pet shop owner poses with two greyhounds
  • Saturday, 3 August, 2024
    Camilla Cavendish
    ‘Childless cat ladies’ fight a tide of pronatalism

    A strange new alliance is growing between those who want to restrict abortion and those asking their compatriots to have more children

    Jonathan McHugh illustration of a blue baby pram with a ginger cat in it playing with toys in the form of the Republican party logo elephant and the Democratic donkey
  • Friday, 2 August, 2024
    House & Home
    The end of the house party

    Have the housing and rental markets finally killed this form of wild, bombastic chaos — and reduced it to a nostalgic, commercialised ‘immersive experience’?

    The image depicts a lively gathering of people in a narrow, warmly lit hallway inside a house or apartment
  • Tuesday, 30 July, 2024
    Office of Communications
    Younger UK viewers turn away from traditional TV channels

    Less than half of 16- to 24-year-olds are tuning in every week, Ofcom finds

    People watch TV together
  • Tuesday, 30 July, 2024
    News in-depthUK society
    More women in England opt for private IVF treatments

    Academics and charities call for a national policy for providing fertility treatment on NHS

    A montage of a baby and a chart
  • Sunday, 28 July, 2024
    South Korea Society
    South Korea bets on foreign housekeepers to ease women’s workloads and boost birth rate

    Seoul to welcome Filipina workers under new scheme designed to encourage women to have children

    Children and two adult women interact inside a daycare center in Chilgok, South Korea
  • Thursday, 25 July, 2024
    News in-depthChinese society
    Younger Chinese fume at call to raise retirement age

    Communist party meeting sparks online row as experts warn ageing population makes change ‘inevitable’

    Two women, one young and the other much older, exit a crowded Beijing subway train
  • Thursday, 25 July, 2024
    News in-depthUS presidential election 2024
    Harris memes resonate with Gen Z voters

    Presumptive Democratic presidential candidate’s campaign gets under way with explosion of online content

    A montage of Kamala Harris and the logo of TikTok with various social posts in the background
  • Tuesday, 23 July, 2024
    Martin Wolf
    Immigration is both essential and impossible

    The option of temporary worker contracts is not embraced by either side but it may be the solution

    James Ferguson illustration of flotilla of ever larger immigrant boats heading west.
  • Sunday, 21 July, 2024
    Emma Jacobs
    When it comes to work, age isn’t just a number

    Changing demographics are set to keep older people employed despite risks highlighted by Biden

    Cartoon people move around a busy office
  • Tuesday, 16 July, 2024
    Young people today are sad nerds

    Are investors out of touch? No, it’s the children who are going wrong

  • Monday, 15 July, 2024
    England and Wales record biggest annual population growth in 75 years

    Office for National Statistics points to impact of immigration as births slip to two-decade low

    Montage of a graph behind a photo of a crowd of people walking along
  • Saturday, 13 July, 2024
    Moira O'Neill
    Why are fewer people getting financial advice?

    Numbers are down on last year, thanks in part to the burden of new regulations. But is this necessarily a bad thing?

    Montage of woman from behind with pen and pound signs and exclamation marks
  • Thursday, 11 July, 2024
    Global population to shrink this century as birth rates fall

    UN report shows earlier — and lower — peak for number of people in the world to reach its maximum level

    Children pushed in a pram in Tokyo
  • Friday, 28 June, 2024
    North American prime property
    Are younger Americans rejecting the homeowning dream?

    Meet the millennials who have done the math and say renting property is better for their finances and flexibility

    Diagram showing a home with a for sale sign connected to broken pipes, boilers and toilets, and an upmarket room with a to let sign connected to planes, money and eating out
  • Friday, 28 June, 2024
    News in-depthUK property
    Middle aged and forever renting: developers’ new target market

    Older people cut off from the housing ladder are a growing sector for the UK’s build-to-rent sector

    Montage of an image of a man and a woman, house keys and a ‘Let’ sign
  • Thursday, 27 June, 2024
    Faith Glasgow
    The great wealth transfer is coming (but are advisers prepared?)

    Compared with their parents, children often have different expectations when it comes to managing their money

    Three generations of a family walking on a beach
  • Tuesday, 25 June, 2024
    ReviewNon-Fiction
    No One Left by Paul Morland — why demography is still destiny

    With ageing populations, falling birth rates and fewer workers to pay tax, the author calls for bold experiments to cope with the dizzying changes already upon us

    A robot moves and speaks to elderly residents in a room
  • Friday, 21 June, 2024
    Moira O'Neill
    Should you really open the Bank of Mum and Dad?

    ‘Nepo-investors’ are on the rise, but will they spend wisely?

  • Thursday, 20 June, 2024
    Birth rates in rich countries halve to hit record low

    Steep decline in fertility will ‘change face of societies’ and affect growth prospects, says OECD

    Baby in South Korea
  • Wednesday, 19 June, 2024
    Sophie Heawood
    Why can’t my parents see the upsides of downsizing?

    ‘We have an older generation often rattling around in large properties filled by possessions rather than people’

  • Monday, 17 June, 2024
    Life and Art from FT Weekend podcast23 min listen
    We need to rethink old age, with Martin Wolf

    The FT’s chief economics commentator talks about what a life should look like as more of us live into our 80s and 90s and even 100s

  • Monday, 17 June, 2024
    Management
    Making sense of Gen Z: employers seek answers on managing younger workers

    Advisers from social media influencers to big consultants offer guidance on how to recruit and retain 20-somethings

    Michael Franklin
  • Sunday, 9 June, 2024
    John Kampfner
    Canada’s immigration model is coming under strain

    Until now its brand of multiculturalism has set an example to the rest of the developed world

    Robson Street in Vancouver.
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