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I don't know why people always focus on the birth rate in Japan. It's pretty standard to developed nations, and there are nations with a lower birth rate.
by mercurysmessage 8y ago
I don't know why people always focus on the birth rate in Japan. It's pretty standard to developed nations, and there are nations with a lower birth rate.
- mantas 8y agoTheir birth rate is now getting back up. It used to be quite a bit worse. On top of that, average Japanese life expectancy is rather long. Which makes it skewed towards elders. And on top of that, they have strict immigration and don't feel like going Euro way at all. Thus population decline is massive compared to western europe.
- ameister14 8y agoIt's because it's been below population replacement since the 1960's, so the age-sex pyramid has been inverted for a long time and it used to be unusual.