In recent years, the trend of declining birth rates in Japan has intensified. The number of newborns has decreased to the current level, 12 years earlier than the government's previous prediction. To prevent a rapid decline in population, the Japanese government has taken various measures to cur...
Among the country's three largest metropolitan areas, only the Tokyo area saw an increase in population, while the Nagoya and the Osaka areas saw their population decrease. The total population of the three major metropolitan areas decreased for the first time since 1975. The decline in the Nag...
At this point, Japan's population is slated to fall to 50 million, a mere 40 percent of its all time high, as the elderly here continue to live longer and the birthrate continues to decline.
Japan has the fastest-aging population of any post-industrial nation on earth. Its birth rate — the average number of children a woman typically has — started to decline in the 1970s. The country's current birth rate is 1.3, according to data from theWorld Bank, well below the "replacem...
this dramatic decline, Japan's fertility rate Figure 1. The Number of Live Births and the Total Fertility Rate (TFR) per Woman: stabilized at a level of 2.0 to 2.2 childrenJapan 1947-2012per woman--at around the replacementlevel--until 1974, when it began to de-cline again.2Since the ...
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Deaths in 2018 increased to a postwar record high of an estimated 1.37 million, with a natural population decline of 448,000, the highest ever recorded. The data indicated that Japan's population decline is accelerating as birthrate falls, increasing difficulty for the government to reach its go...
Germany's population has grown to nearly 85 million. 德国的人口已经增长到近8500万。 Immigration helped to make up for a low birth rate in Germany. 移民帮助弥补了德国较低的出生率。 Immigration is one way to solve Japan's labor shortage problem. 移民是解决日本劳动力短缺问题的一种方式。 But ...
Of all towns and villages in Japan, the ski resort village of Akaigawa in Hokkaido had the highest rate of population growth. The population of the village increased by 22.33 percent, thanks in part to foreign nationals. Hotels in the village have seasonal demand for labor. They hired more ...
TOKYO, May 9 (Xinhua) -- Tesla Inc. CEO Elon Musk has warned about Japan's rapidly-declining population, local media said on Monday. "At the risk of stating the obvious, unless something changes to cause the birth rate to exceed the death rate, Japan will eventually cease to exist. Thi...