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The population of Japan has been decreasing since 2011. Only 8 prefectures had increased its population compared to 2010, due to internal migration to large cities.
That means even if Japan manages to boost its fertility rate dramatically and immediately – which experts say is unrealistic – its population is bound to keep decreasing for at least several ...
Japan's total population was 125.41 million, down just over half a million people from a year earlier, and there was a 10.7% jump in foreign residents with addresses registered in Japan, the ...
The U.S. Census Bureau estimated in 2002 that Japan would experience an 18% decrease of young workers in its workforce and an 8% decrease in its consumer population by 2030. The Japanese labor market is currently under pressure to meet demands for workers, with 125 jobs for every 100 job seekers at the end of 2015, as older generations retire ...
TOKYO (Reuters) -The number of Japanese people has decreased at the fastest pace ever while the number of foreign residents has risen to a record of nearly 3 million, government data showed on ...
Consider for example Japan. As the table below shows, even though Japan's population declined 2.0% during the period 2012-2022, its per capita GDP, a rough approximation of the overall productivity of the Japanese people, rose by about 7.5%, a much greater increase than the 2.0% decrease in its population.
Examples of this emerging trend are Japan, whose population is currently (2023) declining at the rate of 0.5% per year, [2] and China, whose population has peaked and is currently (2023) declining at the rate of about 0.2% per year. [2] By 2050, Europe's population is projected to be declining at the rate of 0.3% per year. [4]
Japan’s population crisis is accelerating, with the number of nationals falling by more than 800,000 in the past year – echoing similar trends seen in other East Asian countries.