Japan Births Fall To Lowest in 125 Years
(Thursday February 27, 2025 @11:40AM (msmash)
from the troubling-signs dept.)
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- News link: https://slashdot.org/story/25/02/27/1010232/japan-births-fall-to-lowest-in-125-years
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The number of babies born in Japan last year fell to the lowest level since records began 125 years ago as the country's demographic crisis deepens and government efforts to reverse the decline continue to fail. [1]Financial Times
> Japan recorded 720,988 births in 2024, according to preliminary government figures published on Thursday. The number has declined for nine straight years and appears to be largely unaffected by financial and other government incentives for married couples to produce more children.
[1] https://www.ft.com/content/95d3282e-daef-4670-b704-c1215393e7f8
[2] https://www.independent.co.uk/asia/japan/japan-birth-rate-lowest-population-b2705648.html
[2]non-paywalled source
:> Japan recorded 720,988 births in 2024, according to preliminary government figures published on Thursday. The number has declined for nine straight years and appears to be largely unaffected by financial and other government incentives for married couples to produce more children.
[1] https://www.ft.com/content/95d3282e-daef-4670-b704-c1215393e7f8
[2] https://www.independent.co.uk/asia/japan/japan-birth-rate-lowest-population-b2705648.html
Axolotl Tanks (Score:1)
by flyingfsck ( 986395 )
We need baby breeding tanks like in the Herbert books.
The high culture decadence effect. (Score:2)
by Qbertino ( 265505 )
Curiously it's efficiency that has us have less children. Because we grow older and we have such an abundance, that we are easily distracted from fundamental animalistic instincts, such as horniness, reproduction, pair-bonding and duty towards family and kin.
Children used to be cheap labor, now they are ultra-expensive pets. That's a recipe for population decline.
There are ancient cultures of which we know that went the same way. They became so aloof that they didn't reproduce anymore and died out pretty qu
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No, it's proof that rationality is pervasive in Japan.
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I hope you're joking because replaced by what? They still aren't letting meaningful numbers of immigrants in which is why their population is shrinking. No one is getting replaced, their total population is just getting smaller.
Plus it's not like anyone is sterilizing them or anything.