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The population of Japan is projected to be 64 million in 2100. In 1930, the population of Japan was 64 million. Did it not exist back then?
by shoobiedoo 2mo ago
The population of Japan is projected to be 64 million in 2100. In 1930, the population of Japan was 64 million. Did it not exist back then?
- mango7283 2mo agoTo be fair you'd need to consider how the percentage of young people looked in 1930 for that to be a meaningful comparison to today
- Danox 2mo agoJapan can easily operate with 60-80 million people in a country slightly smaller than California. And expand again in the future why not?
- PorciiVorbesc 2mo agoThis. You CAN recover from an economic decline, you can recover from a demographic decline like what Japan is experiencing, but you CAN'T recover from demographic replacement, which is what the EU is experiencing.
- klrefg 2mo agoYou should only be comparing the working age population or maybe even the ratio between that and retirees since absolute population is a deceitful metric.
- rightnutwingjob 2mo agoI just think there’s something qualitatively different between 64 million twenty-somethings and 64 million eighty-somethings.