>"Japan last year registered fewer than 800,000 births for the first time since records began over a century ago."

>"The number of Japanese citizens living in the Tokyo area fell in 2021, which was the first drop since statistics began being collated in 1975."

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>"The Census Bureau wanted to gather data about a changing America, but ended up reinforcing old racial categories."

"Analysis finds natural population fell by 997,000 between October 2020 and September 2021 – with Covid cited as principal cause."

>"The ​​Census Bureau unveiled its population data used to draft congressional and state legislative district lines on Thursday."

"Texas and China have a lot in common."

"I believe that this is just the start of something, not the end — that efforts to disenfranchise minority voters will grow only more brazen as the white power movement becomes more desperate."

>"Only the first payment of the enhanced child tax credit has gone out so far, but it already seems to be having a big impact on American families."