Ageing population

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Number of people aged over 85 to double by 2045

Birth rate sees decade of 'extraordinary' decline

What are the challenges facing social care?

Deaths outnumber births for first time in 40 years

Japan to fund AI matchmaking to boost birth rate

Depopulation in mainly rural and island areas

The nations with big (and small) population issues

'Jaw-dropping' world fertility rate crash expected

What happens when we're too old to be 'useful'?

Old age: Why 70 may be the new 65

Staff shortages put 'cancer survival rates at risk'

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Call for wealthy Scots to return home

New exhibition celebrates older athletes

The seaside towns where the young might disappear

'I will fight tooth and nail to make sure I still work' Video, 00:02:53'I will fight tooth and nail to make sure I still work'

Finnish government announces resignation

'I sued my child for money to survive'

Scots' life expectancy rise grinds to halt

Japan minister U-turns on birth-rate gaffe

China's population 'to peak at 1.44bn'

Mothers, your country needs you!