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I admire Japanese culture, it's a shame that with their extremely low birth rate they might eventually disappear. This is not an exaggeration, the current rate
by honm 16y ago
I admire Japanese culture, it's a shame that with their extremely low birth rate they might eventually disappear. This is not an exaggeration, the current rate just has to continue as it is for a few more decades and there is no reason to believe it will change.
- sebkomianos 16y agoWill we be still reproducing with the standard method in "a few more decades"? I highly doubt it.
- honm 16y agoThe birth rate is below replacement level, in fact it's almost nearly 1 which means that the population halves every generation. At least you are lucky and your politicians don't flood your country with immigrants making sure that your culture and gene pool stay intact.
- HSO 16y ago> At least you are lucky and your politicians don't flood your country with immigrants making sure that your culture and gene pool stay intact. Erh, I hope I'm misreading this here. I'm sure there are no racists hanging out on HN?
- Tichy 16y agoI heard they settle quite densely on their island, though. Perhaps the carrying capacity of the island has pretty much maxed out? It seems they eat through the oceans of the whole world to feed everybody, too. Just saying - who knows, maybe the birthrate would change if there was more space/less people. For example it could mean food and space for living would become cheaper, so having children would become cheaper, too.
- angus77 16y agoIt's expected to stabilize at about 70,000,000. It'll shrink, but it's not going away.
- angus77 16y agoGod, I wish people would post a reply explaining why they downvoted something. I don't even know what my crime is here. EDIT: It was nice of someone to upvote me back, but I still don't understand what caused the downvote in the first place. I certainly wasn't trying to be controversial.