The number of newborns in Japan fell below 700,000 for the first time since records began in 1899. The government data released Wednesday showed a 16th straight year of decline and it's faster than had been expected.
It’s a big issue everywhere, Japan in particular has it worse than others because of their robust social support network so you need a large working population to be able to fund it and due to their shrinking population funding social services their deficit has been increasing and is reaching a bad point where their deficit is around 2.5x their GDP so they are going to bury their future already shrinking population in debt
It’s a big issue everywhere, Japan in particular has it worse than others because of their robust social support network so you need a large working population to be able to fund it and due to their shrinking population funding social services their deficit has been increasing and is reaching a bad point where their deficit is around 2.5x their GDP so they are going to bury their future already shrinking population in debt