Japan Posts Record Population Decline in 2018

Japan subway poster, cc Flickr Ryan McBride, modified, https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/2.0/

Summary

A precipitous drop in Japan’s population has long been predicted.

Now it’s actually happening.

In 2018, the country suffered its largest population decline on record: 448,000. The year saw 921,000 births, the lowest amount since records started back in 1899, and over 25,000 fewer than the year before. The 1.369 million recorded deaths were the highest ever recorded.

More declines are expected in the years to come. An oft-cited 2017 estimate from the National Institute of Population and Social Security projects that the Japanese population will fall to 88.08 million in 2065, representing a decline of 30% from 2015 levels.

 

 

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