Japan Today10 天
Births in Japan likely to fall below 700,000 for 1st time in 2024
The number of births in Japan in 2024 is likely to fall below 700,000 for the first time after government data showed Friday ...
Panic in Sweden, crisis in Japan - the countries Elon Musk fears are on brink of collapse
The world's population is growing but in some countries birth rates are plummeting - so do we have too many people or too few ...
The Independent28 天
Japanese expert reveals when the country will be left with just one child under 14
Japanese leaders have called the country’s declining birth rate alarming. The clock displays the current number of children in Japan, the previous year’s data, real-time population decline ...
Falling birth rates raise prospect of sharp decline in living standards
People will need to produce more and work longer to plug growth gap left by women having fewer babies, report says ...
Newsweek27 天
Japan's Population Faces Extinction Amid Birth Rate Crisis
Japan will be down to its last child in 695 years, according to a university's "population clock"—a thought experiment and grim portent as the country's birth rate edges closer to the point of ...
The Independent22 天
Japanese fathers should be forced to take childcare leave, expert says
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The Financial Times21 天
Falling birth rates raise prospect of sharp decline in living standards
A McKinsey report investigating the economic impact of declines in birth rates found that the UK, Germany, Japan and the US would all have to see productivity rise at double the pace seen over the ...