Thungela Resources exceeds production expectations in 2024, with CEO July Ndlovu highlighting a significant turnaround in ...

Johannesburg- and London-listed Thungela Resources delivered a resilient performance for the financial year ended December 31 ...

After years of grinding lower, a widely watched measure of fertility in a country battling significant demographic headwinds notched a small increase. While welcome, there’s little chance South ...

or TFR, remained at 0.97 last year, she said. The prior year marked the first time it had dipped below 1. South Korea reported a level of 0.75, the first gain in almost a decade. Japan, which reports ...

Japan's population decline is accelerating. The number of deaths rose by 1.8 percent to 1,618,684, while the natural decrease — the gap between births and deaths — hit a record-high 897,696, widening ...

Japan is facing a population crisis—so Tokyo, its largest city, will try to solve the problem with something new: a four-day workweek.

The “total fertility rate” is a coarse estimate of the number of children an average woman will bear. A population will be ...

For decades, the total fertility rate in the United States has been below the replacement fertility rate—the level of fertility necessary for the current generation to replace itself.

Japan is now the world’s fourth-largest ... By then, however, there were already signs of a declining population: the total fertility rate, which indicates the number of children a woman is ...

This data shows that the total fertility rate in Japan is far from 2.06, which is regarded as vital to maintain the population level. The figure is not even close to the “desired fertility rate ...