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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 declined in all of its 47 prefectures for the first time in a record drop, while its number of foreign residents hit a new high, reaching almost 3 million people, according to ...
However, as the years have progressed since the last recordings of the population, Japan's population has decreased, raising concern about the future of Japan. There are many causes, such as the declining birthrates, as well as the ratio of men to women since the last measurements from the years of 2006 and 2010.
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.
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, [36] the 2010 census result figure was slightly higher, at just above 128 million, [37] than the 2005 census. Factors implicated in the puzzling figures were more Japanese ...
Japan’s population has been in steady decline since its economic boom of the 1980s, with a fertility rate of 1.3 – far below the 2.1 needed to maintain a stable population, in the absence of ...
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 ...