Japan's fertility crisis is worsening, with data from the first seven months of this year showing the sharpest drop in births in 30 years, according to preliminary government data.
Japan's fertility crisis is worsening, with data from the first seven months of this year showing the sharpest drop in births in 30 years, according to preliminary government data.
Births fell 5.9% from January to July year on year, as the pool of women of childbearing age shrinks and more women delay having children or decide not to have them at all, figures from the Ministry of Health, Labor and Welfare show.During this period, the total number of births was 518,590. For the whole of 2018, the official tally of births was 918,397, a figure which however excludes babies born to foreigners in Japan and Japanese babies born abroad.
US just had the lowest fertility rate in 3 decades 00:54Less weddings, more virginsAnother cause for Japan's declining birth rate is the fall in marriage rates, with having children outside of wedlock still frowned upon. In 2018, the marriage rate stood at 4.7 per 1,000 members of the population, compared to over 10 in the 1970s, according to official statistics. In 2015, the proportion of those who had never married at age 50 reached 23% for men and 14% for women, the highest levels ever.
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