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These trends resulted in the decline of Japan's population after reaching a peak of 128.1 million in October 2008. [6] In 2014, Japan's population was estimated to be 127 million. This figure is expected to shrink to 107 million (by 16%) by 2040 and to 97 million (by 24%) by 2050 if this current demographic trend continues. [7]
The demographic crisis has become one of Japan’s most pressing issues, with multiple governments failing to reverse the double blow of a falling fertility rate and swelling elderly population.
Japan's population is aging faster than that of any other nation. [31] The population of those 65 years or older roughly doubled in 24 years, from 7.1% of the population in 1970 to 14.1% in 1994. The same increase took 61 years in Italy , 85 years in Sweden , and 115 years in France . [ 32 ]
Japan’s population has been in decline for several years – at the last count in 2022, the population had shrunk by more than 800,000 since the previous year, to 125.4 million.
More than 10% of Japan’s population is now age 80 or older, the government said Monday, the latest worrying milestone in the rapidly graying country’s demographic crisis.
As a growing number of younger Japanese are not marrying or remaining childless, [238] [239] Japan's population is expected to drop to around 88 million by 2065. [234] The changes in demographic structure have created several social issues, particularly a decline in the workforce population and an increase in the cost of social security ...
Japan's population of more than 125 million people is projected to fall by about 30%, to 87 million by 2070, with four out of every 10 people 65 years of age or older. Show comments Advertisement
An abandoned house in Yubari district, Hokkaido: an area which has suffered sharp population decline. Though Japan's natural increase turned negative as early as 2005, [37] the 2010 census result figure was slightly higher, at just above 128 million, [38] than the 2005 census. Factors implicated in the puzzling figures were more Japanese ...