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  2. East Asian societies have the world’s lowest birth rates—and ...

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    Last year, South Korea beat its own record for having the world’s lowest birth rate, reporting 0.72 births per woman for 2023, down from 0.78 in 2022. Singapore reported 0.97 births per woman ...

  3. Japan's birth rate falls to a record low as the number of ...

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    Japan’s birth rate fell to a new low for the eighth straight year in 2023, according to Health Ministry data released on Wednesday. A government official described the situation as critical and ...

  4. Japan birth rate hits record low amid concerns over shrinking ...

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    Japan’s birth rate declined for a seventh consecutive year in 2022 to a record low of 1.26, the Health Ministry said Friday, adding to a sense of urgency in a country where the government is ...

  5. Demographics of Japan - Wikipedia

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    The fertility rate among Japanese women was around 1.4 children per woman from 2010 to 2018. From then until 2022, the fertility rate further declined to 1.2. Apart from a small baby boom in the early 1970s, the crude birth rate in Japan has been declining since 1950; it reached its currently lowest point of 5.8 births per thousand people in 2023.

  6. Aging of Japan - Wikipedia

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    Japanese prefectures by total fertility rate (TFR), 2021. Western Japan (Kyushu, Chūgoku region, and Shikoku) has a higher birth rate than Central and Eastern Japan. [81] 13 of the 15 prefectures with a TFR of 1.45 or higher are all located in the Kyushu, Chugoku regions or Shikoku, with the other two prefectures being Fukui and Saga. [82]

  7. Childbirth in Japan - Wikipedia

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    Other reports suggest the rate is as low as 10% in some locations; nevertheless, rates between 10% and 20% reported throughout Japan are significantly lower than North America. [7] Of women attempting vaginal birth at a maternity home, about 10.2% are eventually transferred for complications to large hospitals with neonatal intensive care units.

  8. The ratio is down to 6.5 today, and will drop to just 3.9 by 2050. ... But that will be challenging as there are no clear instances of a country successfully increasing its birth rate, while ...

  9. National Institute of Population and Social Security Research

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    The mission of the IPSS is to collect accurate and detailed data regarding the current state of the Japanese population and its fertility rate and to produce highly accurate estimations of future trends based on careful scientific analyses perforated on that data. The IPSS also conducts research concerning social security policies and systems ...