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Number of Births in Japan To Hit Record Low in 2017 (reuters.com)

Posted by msmash on from the next-up dept.

An anonymous reader shares a report: The number of births in Japan this year has fallen to is lowest since records began more than a century ago with about 941,000 new babies, the health ministry said on Friday, proof if any were needed that it faces an ageing and shrinking population. The number of births will be about 4 percent lower than last year and the lowest since the government started compiling data in 1899, the ministry said.

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  1. Even worse for some European countries... by bogaboga · · Score: 4, Interesting

    For these countries, they will have to rely on immigration which some of them are already doing.

    I guess that in about 50 years, these countries' demographic makeup in terms of race will be very different.