30% reduction of Japanese population expected in coming 50 years
The National Institute of Population and Social Security Research under the Japanese Ministry of Health, Labour and Welfare has released a forecast stating that the country’s population will decrease by a third over the next 50 years, TASS reports
According to the study, only 87m people will live in Japan due to the population decline; at the moment, the figure stands at 125.7m.
Moreover, the share of people of retirement age will reach 38.4 percent by 2070 (in 2020, it made 28.6 percent).
As for the share of foreigners, experts expect it will approach 10.7 percent over the next fifty years.
In 2022, 799.7 thousand children were born in Japan, and that was the lowest figure since the beginning of the relevant statistics in 1899. In comparison with 2021, the birth rate decreased by 5.1 percent, and it has been falling for seven years already.
