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Explore Quebec's demographic crunch in 4 charts As the CAQ looks to cut back the number of immigrants, new data shows the extent of the province's demographic challenge. Quebec is old, and getting ...

The demographic crisis will hit China first China’s one-child policy has created an ugly, upside-down pyramid. Each worker in that generation could end up supporting two parents, four ...

For example: Germany's working-age population was forecast to fall by 4 million over the next decade, but it has now taken in 800,000-ish migrants, which is about 1% of Germany's estimated population.

By THE DATA TEAM “I CERTAINLY didn’t set out to create a language that was intended for mass consumption,” says Guido van Rossum, a Dutch computer scientist who devised Python, a programming ...