Nearly a million more deaths than births in Japan last year

[Sanjeev]

Last year, Japan saw the sharpest yearly population fall since government surveys started in 1968, with over a million more deaths than births.

As Japan's population ages, Prime Minister Shigeru Ishiba has referred to the demographic situation as a "quiet emergency" and promised family-friendly measures including free childcare and more flexible work schedules.

However, there hasn't been much progress in changing the consistently low birth rates among Japanese women. In 2024, there were 908,574 decreased Japanese citizens, according to new data issued by the Ministry of Internal Affairs and Communications on Wednesday.

 

[Starmix]

The married people may have opted to raise only one child. It is not easy to manage many children when the commodities are increasing by the day.