Recording the lowest birth rate in Japan/Tokyo described the situation as critical

report Mehr News Agency quoted by The Straits Times, at the same time as the birth rate in Japan dropped to the lowest level in the last eight years, the Ministry of Health of this country described the numbers as “critical”.

Japan’s Ministry of Health has released data showing that the fertility rate (the average number of children a woman is expected to have in her lifetime) was 1.20 last year. stoped. This figure is far less than the rate of 2.1 that Japan needs to maintain its population.

This figure is also lower than the year 2022 (1.26) and it is the eighth consecutive year that the birth rate in this country of 124 million people has decreased. It has been.

One ​​of the officials of the Japanese Ministry of Health told AFP about this: The continuation of the downward trend in the birth rate brings critical conditions. Various factors, including economic instability and problems related to work management and parenting, can be considered as the cause of the downward trend of these figures.

Decreasing the birth rate in developed countries is a normal trend, and the birth rate in Japan is still high compared to the neighboring country, South Korea. With a birth rate of 0.72, Seoul has the lowest birth rate in the world.