Evolutionary Computation (EC) has been receiving growing attention in the last two decades. EC has been utilized practically not only in computer science but also in other areas. This paper introduces recent advances in EC by referring to the impact factors of EC journals, the acceptance rates of three major EC conferences, and the most cited Japanese papers at CiNii. In addition, active research areas in EC such as evolutionary multi-objective optimization, swarm intelligence and real-world applications are briefly described.