The decrease in the number of births in Japan reached a record/Tokyo is getting old!
| Japan's birth rate has declined for the eighth year in a row, reaching its lowest level in 2023. |
report Mehr News Agency According to Japan Times, the birth rate in Japan reached its lowest level in 2023, and the alarm for this eastern country Asia sounded louder than before.
According to statistics, the number of births in 2023 will decrease by 5.1 percent compared to the previous year. It reached 758 thousand 631 cases and the marriage rate decreased by 5.9 percent to 489 thousand 281 cases. This is the first time in the last 90 years that the marriage rate in Japan falls below 500,000.
Yoshimasa Hayashi, the chief spokesman of the Japanese government, said in response to this statistic: “The government is to deal with this declining rate will take unprecedented measures, including the expansion of kindergartens and the increase of wages for workers and younger employees.
He emphasized: The reduction in the birth rate is in a critical situation. The next 6 years, or in other words, until 2030, when the number of young people in the society will decrease rapidly, will be our last chance to reverse this cycle.
According to the estimate of Japan’s National Institute of Demographic Studies and Social Security, this country currently has about 125 million people. and it is predicted that this figure will reach 87 million people by 2070 with a decrease of 30%, so that one out of every 10 people will be 65 years old or older.
