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https://japan-forward.com/mythbusters-foreign-reporting-on-the-japanese-population-and-birth-rate-reaches-a-new-low/ https://japan-forward.com/mythbusters-forei

• rurounijones 6y ago
  My first link is the official statistics compiled by the Japanese government itself (Statistics Bureau, MIC; Ministry of Health, Labour and Welfare; Geospatial Information Authority of Japan) and their projections. Even your link confirms that the population is in decline, just not as quicky as some reporters say. "While the fertility rate declined from 4.32 in 1949 to a low of 1.26 in 2005, the total population was increasing >>until 2011<< " "Japan’s Population Decline Not as Rapid as Media Portrays". I just noticed I could replace 2017 with 2019 in the official statistics link and did so, resulting in http://www.stat.go.jp/english/data/handbook/pdf/2019all.pdf http://www.stat.go.jp/english/data/handbook/pdf/2019all.pdf It is the same Table 2.2 That still shows a decline and projected decline. I am not seeing anything that backs up your assertion that > birthrate of Japan is considered low, but they are growing still If you still want to assert this as fact then you are going to have to provide a reason that the Japanese government's own statistics and projections over at least the last 5 or so years are incorrect and what should be used as authoritative data instead.
  • Waterfall 6y ago
    My point is that the Japanese population ebbs and flows, but that was old news and I am wrong now about the years.